Can you list the name of the biome, once home to the bison, located in the southern and western parts of Minnesota?
100
What is market hunting?
Can you list the name of the type of hunting in which hunters kill animals and sell meat or furs to markets?
100
What is the lumber industry?
Can you name the industry that cut down trees for the purposed of creating wood products?
200
What is wheat?
Can you name the imported grass that settlers wanted to plant on the prairie?
200
What is a market?
Can you name the term that describes where hunters sell their hunted animals for profit?
200
What is the railroad?
Can you name the mode of transportation that caused a boom in the lumber industry during the last half (last 50 years) of the 19th century (1800s)?
300
What is the soil?
Can you list the reason why the prairie made wheat grow so well?
300
What is the railroad?
Can you name the mode/type of transportation that transformed the fur trade into a booming market hunting operation.
300
What is deforestation?
Can you provide the name of the process that occurs when a forest rapidly disappears? Hint: the word starts with the prefix "de."
400
What are nutrients?
Can you provide the name of the ingredients/elements in the soil that caused wheat to grow so well? Hint: all living organisms need these for their survival.
400
What is the passenger pigeon?
Can you name the type of pigeon, once numbering in the billions, that market hunters hunted to extinction?
400
What is conservation?
Can you name the process in which individuals attempt to protect the natural environment? Hint: The answer comes is a noun that comes from the verb "to conserve."
500
What is monocultural agriculture?
Can you name the type of agriculture in which farmers grown and harvest only one type of plant? Hint: It's a word with two parts, with one of the parts being "mono."
500
What is the North American bison (bison, buffalo)?
Can you name the animal that roamed the prairie and that market hunters almost brought to extinction?
500
What is Hinckley, MN?
Can you name the town in Pine County in which a wild-fire, caused by drought and over-cutting, caused the death of over 400 individuals in 1892. Hint: The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe have a Casino in this town.