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4E SS Ch 7 &8
Question | Answer |
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major crop on the Great Plains | wheat |
major crop on the Central Plains | corn |
resource found in the Mesabi Range | iron |
area of the Middle West affected by the "lake effect" | southern Michigan |
The Great Plains area is mostly ___. | dry grassland |
European country that first claimed the lands in the Middle West | France |
What happened when settlers tried to take over part of the Lakota reservation known as the Black Hills in the 1870s? | War broke out. |
Henry Ford and many other auto makers set up factories in this city. | Detroit |
turning crops into packaged food items sold in grocery stores | food processing |
process that involves clearing all the plants and soil away from an area and then digging ore out of the ground | open-pit mining |
farm animals such as cattle, pigs, and chickens | livestock |
something that happens in the climate when wind blows across a large lake and onto the land | lake effect |
a period of little or no rain | drought |
a flat area thickly covered with tall grass and wildflowers | prairie |
a rock that contains metal | ore |
the practice of restoring the land after strip mining | reclamation |
a very high building | skyscraper |
a dangerous and destructive whirling funnel of wind | tornado |
the use of huge power shovels to dig out ore from the earth | open-pit mining |
a metal used in making steel | iron |
the piece of farm equipment that cuts and threshes wheat | combine |
compact disc that you can read with a computer | CD-ROM |
process of manufacturing large numbers of goods by using identical parts | mass production |
The Lakota traveled across the Great Plains in search of ___. | buffalo |
When using a dictionary, you can quickly figure out which page a word appears on by looking at the top of the page and checking the ____. | guide words |
indoor shopping | mall |
A way to measure the relationship between two points on a map accurately by using a piece of paper with a straight edge | scale strip |
John Deere invented this which made it possible to farm the prairies. | steel plow |
the relationship between a distance shown on a map and the real distance on earth | map scale |