Chapter 8

Question 1

A funnel-shaped, spinning windstorm, sometimes called a cyclone or twister

Answer 1

Tornado

Question 2

A long time with little or no rain

Answer 2

Drought

Question 3

Rock that contains enough of one or more kinds of minerals to be mined

Answer 3

Ore

Question 4

An area of flat or rolling land covered mostly with wildflowers and grasses

Answer 4

Prairie

Question 5

To change in order to make more useful, such as fitting one’s way of living into a new environment

Answer 5

Adapt

Question 6

To measure, especially land

Answer 6

Survey

Question 7

A square section of land in the northwest territory measuring 6 miles (about 10 km) one each side; each township was divided into 36 smaller squares of land to be sold to settlers

Answer 7

Township

Question 8

A law or set of laws

Answer 8

Ordinance

Question 9

Land beyond the settled part of a country

Answer 9

Frontier

Question 10

A person who first settles a place

Answer 10

Pioneer

Question 11

Able to do everything for oneself, with no help from other people

Answer 11

Self-sufficient

Question 12

A layer of soil held together by the roots of grasses

Answer 12

Sod

Question 13

A large boat with flat bottom and square ends

Answer 13

Flatboat

Question 14

The movement of people from one place to another

Answer 14

Migration

Question 15

A boat powered by a steam engine that turns a large paddle wheel

Answer 15

Steamboat

Question 16

A person who sets up a new business

Answer 16

Entrepreneur

Question 17

A place with pens and sheds where cattle are kept before being shipped

Answer 17

Stockyard

Question 18

A line of workers and machines along which a product moves as it is put together one step at a time

Answer 18

Assembly line

Question 19

A way of manufacturing in which many items that are identical can be made quickly and cheaply

Answer 19

Mass production

Question 20

An economy in which factories and machines manufacture most goods

Answer 20

Industrial economy