Primary and Secondary Sources
This example of a primary source shows a certain moment captured in time and can show what people wore, what their homes looked liked, and how people lived.
What is a photograph?
The continent that we live on
What is North America?
These are two types of cattle raised in Nebraska.
What are dairy cows and beef cows?
This extreme weather phenomenon is very common in Nebraska during the spring and summertime.
What is a tornado?
This number refers to the number of people in a given space.
What is the population?
This type of source is one that was there at the time of the event including photographs, artifacts, journals, and letters.
What is a primary source?
The hemisphere on which we live in the United States.
What is the (northern) (western) or (northwestern) hemisphere?
Nebraska is the lead national producer for this type of corn.
What is popcorn?
Hydroelectricity, Wind, and Solar are all examples of this kind of resource.
What are renewable resources?
A land area that is full of farms and open space, but is not heavily populated.
What is rural?
This type of source is made later, after the event happened by people who study the event and includes things like textbooks, movies, and Encyclopedias.
What is a secondary source?
These are at least three land regions of Nebraska.
What are The Sandhills, The Rolling Hills/Till Plains, Ridges and Tablelands, Loess Hills and Plains, and The High Plains?
These two cash crops often duke it out for Nebraska's number one crop.
What are soybeans and corn?
These are at least two examples of non-renewable resources.
What are oil, coal, and natural gas?
These are areas in bigger cities in towns that have many businesses, office buildings, restaurants, and stores.
What is urban?
This type of primary source often has a stamp and would detail conversations between people during a period of time.
What is a letter?
These are the six states that boarder Nebraska.
What are Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and South Dakota?
These are at least three types of livestock raised in Nebraska
What are cattle, sheep, hogs, chickens, and turkeys?
Nebraska has more of this resource than any other state.
What are rivers/waterways?
What are human features?
A sculpture of George Washington that is created this year is this kind of source.
What is a secondary source?
What are longitude lines?
This is the percentage of Nebraska that is used for agriculture.
What is 92%
This large underground water source provides water to most of our state as well as other states including South Dakota, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas.
What is the Ogalala Aquifer?
What is Omaha?