Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Reviewing Facts
Building Skills
100
A very tall building.
What is skyscraper
100
A huge bin that stores harvested grain.
What is grain elevator
100
Largest city in the state of Illinois, and second-largest city in the United States.
What is Chicago, Illinois
100
The busiest transportation center in the Middle West is a. Chicago b. Kansas City, Kansas c. Kansas City, Missouri d. Kiev
What is a. Chicago
100
What is a flow chart?
What is a drawing that shows the steps of an activity in order.
200
A line of workers and machines along which a product is moved as it is assembled.
What is assembly line
200
To send goods to other countries to be sold.
What is export
200
Largest city in Michigan. Detroit is known as the automobile capital of the world.
What is Detroit, Michigan
200
On an automobile assembly line a. each worker builds a whole car from the parts that pass on a moving belt. b. each worker adds one part as the car passes on a moving belt. c. robots are never used. d. workers stop once each day to honor Henry Ford, who built the fist assembly line.
What is b. each worker adds one part as the car passes on a moving belt.
200
What happens after the wheels are attatched to the car?
What is body and frame are joined
300
A machine controlled by a computer that can do certain tasks.
What is robot
300
A good bought into a country from another country for sale.
What is import
300
The world’s largest country, stretching across parts of Europe and Asia.
What is Soviet Union
300
After wheat ripens in a field it is a. harvested by a combine, then sent to a grain elevator. b. sent to a grain elevator, then threshed by a combine. c. harvested slowly and carefully. d. kept in the field for one week.
What is a. harvested by a combine, then sent to a grain elevator.
300
Is the steering wheel attached before or after the seats are added?
What is after
400
A drawing that shows the steps of an activity in order.
What is flow chart
400
A flat, dry plain covered with short grass.
What is steppe
400
Fertile farm region in the southwestern part of the Soviet Union. Largest city in the Soviet Union, located in the Ukraine.
What is Ukraine and Kiev
400
Tourists who visit the Middle West can visit all of these sights except a. the Sears Tower. b. Lake Michigan. c. the Kiev Civic Center. d. the Chicago River lock.
What is c. the Kiev Civic Center.
400
Why are flow charts useful?
What is they let you give directions in an easy way.
500
A machine that cuts and threshes wheat.
What is combine
500
An economy that is completely operated by the government.
What is planned economy
500
City in western Missouri located where the Kansas and Missouri rivers meet.
What is Kansas City
500
In a planned economy a. farmers must plan carefully to get the best harvest. b. the governmnet owns farms, factories, and stores. c. farms are protected from bad weather by good planning. d. farmers grow so much food they can export some of it.
What is b. the government owns farms, factories, and stores.
500
What is indicated for each step of a flow chart?
What is a label of what is going on.