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
