Social Studies Chapter 8 Flashcards
An area of flat or rolling land covered mostly with wildflowers and grasses.
prairie
A funnel-shaped, spinning windstorm, sometimes called a cyclone or twister.
tornado
A long time with little or no rain.
drought
Rock that contains enough of one or more kinds of minerals to be mined.
ore
A drawing that shows the steps in a process.
flowchart
To change in order to make more useful, such as fitting one’s way of living into a new environment.
adapt
To measure, especially land.
survey
A square section of land in the northwest territory measuring 6 miles on each side; each township was divided into 36 smaller squares of land to be sold to settlers.
township
A set of laws.
ordinance
Land beyond the settled part of a country.
frontier
A person who first settles a new place.
pioneer
A layer of soil held together by the roots of grasses.
sod
Able to do everything for oneself, with no help from other people.
self-sufficient
A map that shows information about a place during a certain time in history.
historical map
A large boat with a flat bottom and square ends.
flatboat
The movement of people from one place to another.
migration
A boat powered by a steam engine that turns a large paddle wheel.
steamboat
A person who sets up a new business.
entrepreneur
A place with pens and sheds where cattle are kept before being shipped.
stockyard
A line of workers and machines along which a product moves as it is put together one step at a time
assembly line
A way of manufacturing in which many items that are identical can be made quickly and cheaply.
mass production
An economy in which factories and machines manufacture most goods.
industrial economy
What is the capital of North Dakota
Bismarck
What is the capital of South Dakota
Pierre
