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Potluck
100
A period of little or no rain.
What is a drought?
100
The state where the Badlands are located
What is South Dakota?
100
A trade that relied on animals which helped establish the Midwest.
What is the fur trade?
100
These provided an easier way for settlers to reach the Midwest.
What are the railroads?
100
The native Americans moved to follow these animals.
What are buffalo?
200
Occurs when storms pick up more snow over the Great Lakes.
What is Lake Effect?
200
The main physical feature of the MIdwest.
What are plains?
200
The economic RESOURCE that helped establish the Midwest.
What is agriculture?
200
The state known for manufacturing automobiles.
What is Michigan?
200
The animal the Sioux used to survive?
What are the buffalo?
300
Weather conditions over time.
What is climate?
300
Land form covered mostly in grass and flowers.
What is a prairie.
300
The industry that depends on farms and ranches.
What is food processing?
300
Transportation used by settlers to move their families to the Midwest.
What are wagons?
300
The Great Lakes were formed this way.
What is the melting and moving of glaciers?
400
The reason Michigan receives so much snow.
What is Lake Effect.
400
The two regions the Midwest is divided into.
What are The Lakes States and the Plain States?
400
Another trade that helped establish the Midwest and was important because of the rivers and lakes.
What is shipbuilding?
400
Instead of using canoes Native Americans were forced to use these when they were moved.
What are horses?
400
Economic activity that the beef, hog, and dairy industry rely on.
What is ranching?
500
A weather related ecological disaster.
What is the Dust Bowl?
500
The Great Lake not in the Midwest.
What is Lake Ontario?
500
Columbus is capital of this state.
What is Ohio?
500
The form of transportation allowed settlers to travel/move upstream.
What is a Steamboat?
500
Historic event that added a huge frontier to the US.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?