Geography
An area of flat or rolling land covered mostly with grasses and wildflowers.
What is the prairie?
This is the main resource found in Northern Minnesota.
What is iron ore?
This animal was hunted by Native Americans on the Central Plains.
What is the buffalo?
This is a boat powered by a steam engine.
What is a steamboat?
This was a president who grew up in the midwest and lived in a log cabin.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
There are 5 of these large bodies of water. One is near Minnesota.
What are the Great Lakes?
This is the main resource found in Kansas.
What is oil or natural gas?
This is a layer of soil held together by the roots of grass that pioneers used to build houses.
What is sod?
These are people who start new businesses.
What are entrepreneurs?
This man helped build automobiles and factories.
Who was Henry Ford?
This is a funnel-shaped spinning storm.
What is a tornado?
This is the main land use in the Midwest.
What is farming?
This is a person who first settles a place.
What is a pioneer?
This is a place where livestock is bought, sold, and kept.
What is a stockyard?
This man was known for making the steamboat.
Who was Robert Fulton?
This is a period of little or no rain.
What is a drought?
The main land uses in Nebraska are this.
What is cattle, sheep, and hogs, and farming?
This is the land the government divided into square that settlers could have.
What are townships?
This is a line of workers alone with a products moves as it is made.
What is an assembly line?
This man owned one of the largest stockyards.
Who was Joseph McCoy?
When moisture from a frozen lake makes it snow nearby.
What is the Lake Effect?
Name 5 of resources found in the Midwest.
What are coal, gold, granite, limestone, and lead?
This is a set of laws that governed a territory.
What are ordinances?
THis is the kind of economy where good are made by machines and factories.
What is industrial economy?
This Native American fought the settlers for their land.
Who was Tecumseh?