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Auto Industry
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A huge, swirling windstorm that often strikes the Midwest.
What is a tornado?
100
The first settlers of the Midwest Region.
Who are the Mississippians, a Native American tribe?
100
Earth held together by the roots of prairie grass.
What is sod?
100
The place where traders buy and sell a million bushels of grain each day.
What is the Grain Exchange?
100
This person invented a way to produce automobiles quickly so that all people could afford them.
Who is Henry Ford?
200
A huge, underground collection of water.
What is an aquifier?
200
Things the Mississippians made, used and left behind, and that were discovered many years later.
What are artifacts?
200
One way the pioneers had to adapt to living and surviving on the Great Plains.
What is using new ways of farming?
200
Because most of the food in the U.S. is grown on farms in the Midwest, the region has earned this nickname.
What is America's Breadbasket"?
200
A system for making large amounts of a product in a short time.
What is mass production?
300
Wide open area covered by grasslands.
What is a prairie?
300
The study of artifacts to learn about how people lived.
What is archaeology?
300
Name one thing sod was used fo.
What is to build houses?
300
The process of watering a field artificially.
What is irrigation?
300
A system of manufacturing where each worker has a small job to do.
What is an assembly line?
400
The most important river in the Midwest Region.
What is the Mississippi River?
400
People who take on new challenges, such as settling a new area.
What are pioneers?
400
The nickname for the Midwest Region in the 1930s after the soil turned to dust from erosion and a long, dry spell.
What is "Dustbowl"?
400
Animals that people raise on farms.
What is livestock?
400
What the American auto manufacturers had to do to revive the industry in the 1980s.
What is change the way they designed and sold cars when Americans began preferring foreign cars?
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The nickname for the area of the Midwest where cold, dry winds from Canada mix with warm, moist winds from the Gulf of Mexico and form big storms.
What is "Tornado Alley"?
500
The area of the Midwest Region that was not settled by pioneers at first because they were not used to living without forests.
What is the Great Plains?
500
The name of the man who invented a special plow that could easily cut through prairie sod.
Who is John Deere?
500
Country Fairs accurately represent life in the Midwest because of this reason.
What is many people live on farms and are proud to show their way of life?
500
A supply of workers.
What is a labor force?