United States Geography

​​Soybeans

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​​Hay

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​​Grains

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​​Cotton

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​​Livestock Ranching

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​​Irrigation farming

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​dry land farming

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What is an economic activity in the agricultural regions of the West?

​​Mineral Extraction

​​Logging

​​Tourism

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​South Dakota's Black Hills: produced more gold than anywhere else in the world.

​Deadwood, South Dakota

​​Casino Gambling

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​​Mountain Landscapes

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​​Ski Resorts

​Deadwood is a city in South Dakota known for its gold rush history. Mount Moriah Cemetery has the graves of Wild West figures like Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane. Exhibits at the Adams Museum include a huge gold nugget and a plesiosaur fossil. 

​​Deadwood, South Dakota

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​Morenci Mine in Arizona

​​Copper Mining

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​Texas and Oklahoma

​​Oil/Natural Gas

​Wyoming, the largest coal-producing state in the United States, produced 41% of total U.S. coal production and 73% of the coal mined in the Western coal region.

​​Coal

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​Energy Fuels  provides major nuclear power plants with uranium supplied from its White Mesa mill in Utah, the only conventional uranium mill operating in the country.

​​Uranium

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​American Smelting and Refining Company

Smelting is to melt the ore to extract the metal--very ​large amounts of energy needed to melt the rock to get the metal out.

​​Asarco

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​​Smeltertown

​ Las Vegas is fastest growing city and state in the US.

​​Las Vegas, Nevada

​​Phoenix,

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​​San Antonio

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​​Denver

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​​Houston

​​Dallas

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​​Albuquerque

​​Denver

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