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Using Our Land
Two Land Regions
A home for Animals
Shaping the Land and Ancient People
Climate of Nebraska- Past and Today
100
Things found in nature that people can use
What are natural resources?
100
Nebraska's two land regions
What are Till Plains and Great Plains?
100
White-tail deer, badgers, and coyotes
What animals that make their home in Nebraska?
100
Scientists who study the soil and rocks to see how Earth was formed.
What are geologists?
100
This is an extremely strong windstorm which is known to cause massive amounts of damage if grounded.
What is a tornado?
200
soil, water, plants
What are renewable resources?
200
The region in which most Nebraskans live in
What are the Till Plains?
200
When an animal is in danger of becoming extinct
What is endangered?
200
Scientists who study artifacts and other clues to learn how people lived in the past
What are archaeologists?
200
When there is too little rain.
What is drought?
300
Two ways people use windmills
What is pumping water and making electricity
300
rich soil, corn, soybeans, Omaha, Lincoln, Winside
What is found in the Till Plains region?
300
An ancient watering hole which was covered by volcanic ash
What is Ashfall Fossil Bed?
300
Geologists realized Nebraska was once covered by an ocean when they found this.
What are fossils of sea creatures?
300
A time period when winters became very cold and snowy, and they lasted most of the year. Summers did not get warm enough to melt the snow.
What is the Ice Age?
400
swimming, hydroelectricity, irrigation
What is water used for?
400
Grand Island, Ranches, Badlands, Sandhills, High Plains, Badlands, Wildcat Hills, and Pine Ridge
What is found in the Great Plains region?
400
A type of bird who migrates through Nebraska each year
What are Sandhill Cranes?
400
This is a tool used to help Ancient Native Americans throw their spear.
What is an atlatl?
400
Blizzards, hot summers, four seasons
What is Nebraska's weather?
500
One of these is used for paint, crayons, and shampoo. One is used for cereal, bedding, and crackers. One is used for grazing, hay, and pellets. One is used for a thickener, soap, and plastic.
What are soybeans, wheat, grasses, and corn?
500
Three landforms of the High Plains
What is Chimney Rock, Courthouse Rock, and Scotts Bluff?
500
zebras, rhinos, cheetahs, saber-toothed tigers
What are animals of ancient Nebraska?
500
This is what happened after hunter-gatherers learned how to farm their own crops.
What is form villages?
500
Climate became warmer. Winters were getting shorter. Glaciers melted and water spread across the land. The fast moving water formed some of the rivers, valleys, and lakes we see today.
What is the end of the Ice Age?