Midwest Region Unit Review | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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What is a destructive column of spinning air?

tornado

What is a port city?

a city that began near a waterway

What is iron ore used for?

to create steel which is used in buildings and machinery

Who invented the first afforable automobile?

Henry Ford

What was Chicago before it was a large city?

Trading Post

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

Interstate Highway

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

John Deere

Who started the trading post that would later become Chicago?

Jean Baptiste Du Sable

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.

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

Limestone

How were the Great Lakes formed?

by glaciers long ago

What natural resource in the Midwest is used as fuel to produce electricity?

coal

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

Mississippi

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

prairie

Who explored the Mississippi River?

Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet

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

the Badlands

Name two of the four Great Lakes in the Midwest.

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

What is a hub?

the center of a transportation network