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chapter 8 s.s. jan
Question | Answer |
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prarie | flat or gently rolling land covered with grasses and wild flowers |
live stock | animals kept on a farm such as cattle hogs and chicken |
ggreat plains | dry grass land higher elevation and wheat |
central plains | low with gentle hills corn plenty of rain |
great lakes | warm summer cold winter |
lake effect | the effect of the great lakes on the climate of parts of the middle west similar to the effect of oceans on lands near them |
drought | a period in which very little rain falls |
tornado | a destructive funnle of wind that moves over the gronds at high speeds |
iron | a hard metal mainly used to make steel |
ore | a rock that contains metal |
open pit minning | a method of removing one depoisets close to the surface of the ground using power shovels |
reclamation | restoring land to its previos state after it has been minned particuraly by open pit methods |
sky scrapper | a high bulding usally supported by a steel frame |