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3. Question 1 Corn, soybeans, wheat
Name 3 crops that are grown in the Midwest.
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4. Question 2
soil
What does crop rotation help to protect?
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5. Question 3 Corn, wheat, and dairy
What are the 3 belts of the Midwest region?
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6. Question 4
Axes and scythes (hand tools), to reapers and combines (oxen driven), to tractors.
How have farming tools changed from the 1800s to the 1900s to the present?
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7. Question 5 90% (1800), 40% (1900), 2% (now) Check Answer
Describe the change in % of people living on farms from 1800 to 1900 to the present.
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8. Question 6 plains What are flat grasslands used for farming known as?
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9. Question 7 Plains, rolling hills, rivers, and lakes.
What are 3 physical features of the Midwest?
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10. Question 8 Lake effect snow occurs.
What happens when cold air from Canada meets damp air over the Great Lakes?
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11. Question 9
Fertile soil, water, woods, natural gas, iron ore, coal, and prairies.
What are 3 natural resources of the Midwest?
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12. Question 10 Great Plains to the west and Central Plains to the east.
How are the plains separated?
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13. Question 11 Plains Indians
This group of people hunted buffalo and lived in teepees.
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14. Question 12
The French
This group of settlers came in search of animal furs.
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15. Question 13 Fighting with other Indians over hunting grounds.
The Eastern Woodland Indians’ main problem was ______.
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16. Question 14 European American
This group of settlers moved west after the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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17. Question 15
Plains were mobile society and the Eastern Woodland lived in permanent villages.
What was the main difference between the Plains Indians and the Eastern Woodland Indians?
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18. Question 16
Gateway Arch, Mt. Rushmore, Wrigley field, Crazy Horse Mem.
Name 3 attractions of the Midwest.
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19. Question 17 Automobile industry
What important industry of the Midwest began in Detroit?
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20. Question 18
Henry Ford in 1908.
Who started the automobile industry in Detroit? What year?
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21. Question 19
The assembly line
What invention aided the automobile industry and helped with speed and lowering costs?
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22. Question 20 States are far inland and there are no ocean breezes.
Name 2 reasons why temperatures in the Midwest reach extreme highs and lows.
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