Southwest
SW Yesterday and Today
Midwest
Midwest Yesterday and Today
Mixed Questions
100
4 states of the Southwest are?
What is Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico (any order)
100
The main resource of Texas and Oklahoma is ___________ and the main industry of Arizona and New Mexico is ____________________
What is oil and mining (coal and minerals)
100
What are 2 MAIN landforms of the Midwest?
What is plains and lakes
100
The Native Americans (like the Sioux) roamed around following _________________
What is buffalo
100
The climate of the SW is mostly _____________
What is hot (dry or humid)
200
The southwest has what kind of plains?
What is coastal plains
200
The people that live in the Midwest sometimes worry about this danger
What is tornadoes or droughts
200
The Sioux Indians lived in
What is teepees
200
The climate of the Midwest is different from other places because of the _____________ (it makes the summers hot and winters cold)
What is the winds (from the north and south)
300
What is the biggest challenge for people in the southwest?
What is lack of water
300
Mexican culture is still a big part of the Southwest because ________________________
What is the Southwest used to be a part of Mexico
300
A resource covering most of the Midwest is
What is soil (on plains)
300
The two regions of the Midwest are the ______________ states and the _____________ states.
What is Great Lake states and Plain states
300
A land that is wild and has no settlements is called the ________________
What is frontier
400
Another land form of the southwest are (think Sanoran and Painted) _____________
What are deserts
400
We can still see evidence of other cultures in the southwest today (such as Spanish, Mexican, Cowboy and Native American) by the _________, _________, and __________.
What is words, food and dress (any order)
400
5% of the world´s fresh water comes from this resource of the Midwest
What is the Great Lakes
400
The main industry of the Plain states is _______________
What is farming
400
A flat or rolling land filled with grasses and flowers is called a
What is prairie
500
When a mountain blocks rain clouds from passing tot eh other side it creates a _______________.
What is rain shadow
500
The Pueblo Indians built houses out of __________ to keep the desert heat out.
What is adobe
500
People who came to the Midwest before it was settled were called _____________
What is pioneers
500
The main industry of the Great Lake states is
What is factories (especially making cars)
500
Name 5 states from the Midwest
What is North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota (any 5, any order)