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| What formed the Great Lakes? |
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| the moving and melting of glaciers |
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| A --- is an area of flat or rolling land covered mostly with grasses and wildflowers. |
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| A --- is a long period of little or no rain. |
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| When are tornadoes most likely to strike the Midwest? |
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| in the spring and the summer |
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| On average, how many tornadoes strike the Midwest yearly? |
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| Much of the nation's --- --- comes fromt he Midwest. |
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| a rock that has one or more kinds of minerals |
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| How did the Sioux Indians adapt to survive in their environment? |
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| 1. moved from place to place following the herds of buffalo. 2. using tepees to be able to move quickly and easily. 3. using many parts of the buffalo to survive (food, clothing, tools) |
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| Pioneers had to be self-sufficient. What does that mean? |
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| They had to make everything they had. They could not rely on other people. There were no stores nearby to buy anything. |
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With few trees available on the prairie, pioneers
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| a layer of soil held together by the roots of grasses. |
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| During the 1700s what did settlers begin to migrate? |
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| A --- is the movement of people from one place to another. |
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| When did railroad companies begin building miles of train tracks across the Midwest? |
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| What effect did railroads and trains have on the midwest? |
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| The new railroad helped the region grow even more because it provided an easier way for settlers and goods to reach the Midwest. |
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| Why did Chicago, Illinois become one of the world's busiest railroad centers? |
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| It connected ten major railroad lines and about 3,000 miles of tracks. |
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| --- are people who start new businesses. |
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| Why did railroad towns attract entrepreneurs? |
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| They opened businesses to serve the region's growing population. |
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| In the early 1900s, --- became the center of the nation's automobile industry. |
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| In 1913, Henry Ford set up an --- --- in his Detroit automobile factory. |
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| What is an assembly line? |
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| An assembly line is a line of workers along which a product moves as it is put together one step at a time. |
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| How are assembly lines part of mass production? |
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| It is a form of mass production because it helps to make a product more quickly and cheaply. |
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| Why did Detroit, Michigan become the center of the nation's industry? |
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| 1. It is located on the Great Lakes which made shipping raw materials and finished automobiles easier. 2. It had steel mills nearby to supply the steel needed to make cars. |
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