Social Studies Chapter 8 Test April 22

Question 1

Tornado

Answer 1

A funnel shaped spinning windstorm sometimes called a cyclone or twister

Question 2

Sod

Answer 2

A layer of soil held together by the roots of grasses

Question 3

Adapt

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Survey

Answer 4

To measure especially land

Question 5

Stockyard

Answer 5

Replace with 10 and shed where cattle or cat before being shipped

Question 6

Migration

Answer 6

The movement of people from one place to another

Question 7

Frontier

Answer 7

Land beyond this settled part of the country

Question 8

Assembly-line

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Drought

Answer 9

A long time with little or no rain

Question 10

Entrepreneur

Answer 10

A person who set up a new business

Question 11

Mass production

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Ore

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Ordinance

Answer 13

A law or set of laws

Question 14

How do you tornadoes affect the Midwest?

Answer 14

There are over 300 tornadoes each year and they can destroy everything with little warning

Question 15

Why did Detroit become the center of automobile industry?

Answer 15

Location on the Great Lakes with steel mills near were near the city

Question 16

What was the Northwest ordinance

Answer 16

A set of laws that stated how the Northwest territory would be governed

Question 17

What was the Homestead act

Answer 17

It gave Freelan to the head of the household who was 21, who would live on the land for five years in the great plains

Question 18

What is the eastern part of the interior plains called

Answer 18

The central Plains

Question 19

What is the nickname of the central Plains

Answer 19

The corn belt

Question 20

What is the western part of the interior plains called

Answer 20

The Great Plains

Question 21

What is the nickname of the Great Plains

Answer 21

The breadbasket

Question 22

What is Robert Fulton famous for

Answer 22

He invented the steamboat

Question 23

What is Joseph McCoy famous for

Answer 23

He opened the largest stockyard

Question 24

What is Henry Ford famous for

Answer 24

He invented the assembly line in Kansas

Question 25

When did the railroads link the Midwest with the East

Answer 25

1850

Question 26

What made the Midwest cities grow in 1950

Answer 26

Growing industrial economies

Question 27

Went to physical features of the Midwest were created by glaciers

Answer 27

The interior plains in the Great Lakes

Question 28

What was freeways in which the Native Americans of the Great Plains use the Buffalo

Answer 28

They ate the meat. They use the skins to make teepees clothing and blankets. They also made tools needles and arrowheads from the bones and horns

Question 29

How did Henry Ford change the auto industry

Answer 29

He set up an assembly line that allowed workers to mass-produce cars this let cars be made more quickly and cheaply using machines

Question 30

Which mineral is plentiful in the Midwest region

Answer 30

Iron ore

Question 31

What did most of the early settlers on the Great Plains used to build their homes

Answer 31

Sod

Question 32

What ways of life change for the Sue once they move to the Great Plains

Answer 32

There were a few Rivers on the Great Plains to the Sue could no longer use canoes to travel. They had to capture wild horses and learn to ride them the Sue did not build permanent villages or Farms on the right plans they move from place to place following the herd of buffalo so they set up teepees

Question 33

Why a real rose important to the growth of the Midwest

Answer 33

It provided easier ways for the sellers to reach the Midwest. Because new towns to grow along the tracks and better transportation help city and industries grow in the Midwest

Question 34

What happens to me after it is ground in the flour

Answer 34

The flour is bagged and shipped to the bread factory

Question 35

Prairie

Answer 35

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