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Social Studies Alive! Study Guide
Ch. 8: A Crop Duster Tour of the Midwest
Match terms with their definitions. At home, cut out boxes and match term with definition.
_____ 1. This city became a major
transportation hub
_____ 2. The Midwest Region’s nickname
because farmers raise large
amounts of grain here
_____ 3. St. Louis, Missouri’s nickname
_____ 4. Four great American presidents
are honored with their faces
carved into the Black Hills at this
national memorial
A. The Gateway to the West
B. Blizzards
C. Moving belt carried unfinished cars past
workers who did just one task to put the car
together, it dropped the time it took to
assemble a car from 12 hours to 93 minutes
D. Chicago
_____ 5. Iowa’s nickname
E. Dodge City, Kansas
_____ 6. These weather events bring
heavy snowfall and freezing wind
to the Midwest
F. The Farm State
_____ 7. You could see cowboys at this
location
G. America’s Breadbasket
_____ 8. The moving assembly line helped
Henry Ford in these ways:
H. Mount Rushmore
Chapter 8
A Crop Duster Tour of the Midwest
“America’s Breadbasket”
Farmers in the Midwest grow a lot of
wheat we use to make bread.
- Kansas & North Dakota
Dairy Farming
“Gateway to the West”
“Corn State”
Cowboys
Raising cows to produce milk
- Wisconsin
St. Louis, Missouri
- Pioneers (the first people to
make their homes in the west)
started their journey from here.
Iowa
- Able to grow a lot of corn in
the flat, fertile soil
Dodge City, Kansas
- In the 1870s cowboys used to
drive cattle from Texas to
Dodge City.
Chapter 8
A Crop Duster Tour of the Midwest
Mt. Rushmore
Huge monument carved into the rock
Henry Ford
Transportation Hub
Blizzards
Heavy snow & wind
showing the faces of four American
presidents.
- George Washington
- Thomas Jefferson
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Abraham Lincoln
South Dakota
Changed the way cars are made
- Built cars in Detroit, Michigan
- Tried to figure out how to lower
the cost of making his cars
- Created the assembly line
- Cut the time needed to build
- a car from 12 hours to 93 minutes!
Chicago, Illinois
- Center for moving goods and
people
- Railroads, highways, airports,
rivers, and lakes move more
people and goods into and out of
Chicago than any other American
City
- 73 million passengers pass through
the O’Hare airport in one year
Hailstorms
hail stones (ice)
Tornado
Swirling windstorm