Jeopardy Game
Midwest Region
Characteristics
Early
Settlers
Industry/
Attractions
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Agriculture
Physical
Question 1
Corn, soybeans, wheat
Name 3 crops that are grown in the
Midwest.
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Question 2
soil
What does crop rotation help to protect?
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Question 3
Corn, wheat, and dairy
What are the 3 belts of the Midwest
region?
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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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Question 5
90% (1800), 40% (1900), 2%
(now)
Describe the change in % of people living on
farms from 1800 to 1900 to the present.
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Question 6
plains
What are flat grasslands used for farming
known as?
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Question 7
Plains, rolling hills, rivers, and
lakes.
What are 3 physical features of the
Midwest?
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Question 8
Lake effect snow occurs.
What happens when cold air from Canada
meets damp air over the Great Lakes?
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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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Question
10
Great Plains to the west and
Central Plains to the east.
How are the plains separated?
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Question
11
Plains Indians
This group of people hunted buffalo and
lived in teepees.
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Question
12
The French
This group of settlers came in search of
animal furs.
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Question
13
Fighting with other Indians over
hunting grounds.
The Eastern Woodland Indians’ main
problem was ______.
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Question
14
European American
This group of settlers moved west after
the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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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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Question
16
Gateway Arch, Mt. Rushmore,
Wrigley field, Crazy Horse Mem.
Name 3 attractions of the Midwest.
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Question
17
Automobile industry
What important industry of the Midwest
began in Detroit?
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Question
18
Henry Ford in 1908.
Who started the automobile industry in
Detroit? What year?
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Question
19
The assembly line
What invention aided the automobile
industry and helped with speed and
lowering costs?
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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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