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100
If you were in a thick forest in the Midwest, you would be around these major bodies of water.
What are the great lakes?
100
Archaeologists have found huge mounds in the Midwest that this culture left behind.
What is the Mississippian culture?
100
Name an industrial product of the Midwest.
What are planes, cars, and paper?
100
Name two large bodies of water in the Midwest.
What is the Great Lakes (Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario), or Rivers (Mississippi river, Ohio River)?
100
A large area of flat or rolling treeless grassland.
What is a prairie?
200
This region in the country has cold winters and hot summers.
What is the Midwest?
200
People in the Midwest celebrated their way of life by attending these events.
What are county fairs?
200
Name an agricultural product that comes from the Midwest.
What is corn, wheat, dairy and meats?
200
This is the process of watering a field artificially.
What is irrigation?
200
Animals people raise on farms.
What is livestock?
300
Earth held together by roots of prairie grasses often was used to make houses.
What is sod?
300
This acquisition to control the port of New Orleans made by President Jefferson doubled the amount of land in the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase? Resulted • Cheap land for pioneers • Westward expansion
300
These three major industries are how people in the Midwest earn a living.
What is farming, mining and manufacturing?
300
This area in the Midwest is often hit by huge windstorms.
What is Tornado Valley? (or the prairie lands where the heat from the south and the cool air from the north mix and wind can gather speed?)
300
Resources in their natural form.
What are raw materials?
400
These two resources used to make steel, provide jobs for miners in the Midwest?
What is iron and coal?
400
A farmer might watch the trading of crops (mainly grain) to determine market pricing at this location.
What is the Minneapolis Grain Exchange?
400
Name two things that might be on exhibit at a county fair in the Midwest.
What is livestock, and crops?
400
Identify the three groups of settlers that moved into the Midwest.
What are the Spanish explorers, the French/English trappers and the European pioneers?
400
A person who takes on new challenges, such as settling an area.
What is a pioneer?
500

This city has the largest concentration of mammoth remains in the world.

What is Hot Springs, South Dakota?

500

This state has a larger Amish population than any other state.

What is Ohio?

500

This city had the first public elementary school in the United States

What is St. Louis, Missouri?

500

What year was the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign formed?

What is 1867?

500

A body of rock and/or sediment that holds groundwater.

What is an aquifer?