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