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The Environment
Geography
Places
People
Farming & Industry
100
Rotating winds that can pick up and destroy almost everything in their path: people, livestock, trees, automobiles, buildings and homes.
What is a tornado
100
The two plains in the Middle West
What are the Great and Central Plains
100
The location in which 57 automobile factories were opened in 1903
What is Detroit, Michigan
100
People who settled in the Middle West in the 1800's
Who are the pioneers
100
The main crops grown in the Middle West
What are corn and wheat
200
Winter storms with temperatures below 20 degrees, strong winds, and a lot of snow
What is a blizzard
200
A flat area covered with tall grasses and wildflowers
What is a prairie
200
The state where Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse monuments are found
What is South Dakota
200
The inventor of the Model T vehicle in 1896
Who is Henry Ford
200
A metal that makes up steel that is very common throughout the Middle West
What is iron
300
A lack of rain that worries farmers
What is a drought
300
The four states that border Lake Michigan
What are Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, and Indianna
300
The location in which gold was discovered in 1874
What is The Black Hills
300
One of the leaders of the Lakota people
Who is Crazy Horse or Sitting Bull
300
A type of farming in which people only grow enough food to support their family, not enough to sell
What is subsistence farming
400
2 ways that communities prepare for natural disasters in the Middle West
What are news reports and snow removal services
400
The four Great Lakes located in the Middle West
What are Lake Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Erie
400
Where iron ore was mined
What is the Mesabi Range
400
The inventor of the plow
Who is John Deere
400
The main changes to manufacturing that have allowed for products to be made cheaper and faster
What are assembly lines and/or robots
500
This gives the Middle West a gentler climate than other parts of the region
What is the Lake Effect
500
The Lakota people lived between these two rivers
What are the Missouri and the Mississippi
500
The four presidents on Mount Rushmore
Who are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln
500
This person led 675 soldiers toward the Little Big Horn River in Montana and fought the Native Americans in 1876 but lost in his last stand.
Who is Lieutenant Colonel George Custer
500
A farm or ranch which is combined with other businesses, such as food processing
What is an agribusiness