Midwest Region Unit Review | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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Review of Chapter 7

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Who improved the steel plow so it could cut through thick prairie grass?

John Deere

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Who started the trading post that would later become Chicago?

Jean Baptiste Du Sable

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Who invented the first afforable automobile?

Henry Ford

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What do we call an area of flat rolling land covered mostly by grasses and wildflowers?

prairie

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What is a destructive column of spinning air?

tornado

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What is an area of rough land and light vegatation in western South Dakota?

the Badlands

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What is a system of wide, fast roads connecting all states?

Interstate Highway

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What is a hub?

the center of a transportation network

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Name two of the four Great Lakes in the Midwest.

Lake Huron, Lake Erie, Lake Superior, or Lake Michigan

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How were the Great Lakes formed?

by glaciers long ago

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What is the greatest of all rivers found in the Midwest?

Mississippi

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Give one detail about the Mississippi River.

It is 2,350 miles long. It starts in Minnesota and ends at the Gulf of Mexico. carries more water than any other river in North America.

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What natural resource from the Midwest can be found in the Empire State Building in New York City?

Limestone

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What is a port city?

a city that began near a waterway

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What was Chicago before it was a large city?

Trading Post

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Who explored the Mississippi River?

Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet

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