Life on the Great Plains USII.2a

Which statement about the Great Plains is TRUE?

• The Great Plains
  lacked good
  farm land.
• The Great
  Plains were
  just desert
  areas.
• The Great
  Plains were a
  vast area to
  be settled
• The Great
  Plains were a
  treeless
  wasteland

Railroads, Windmills, Steel Plows and Barbed Wire can best be described as what?

• Native American Technology
• Items Used to Settle the Appalachian Mountains
• Life on the Great Plains
• Inventions and Adaptations Used to Settle the Great Plains

What inventions helped farmers fence their fields?

• Railroads
• Steel plows
• Windmills
• Barbed wire

What did the settlers use to build their houses out of?

• trees

• grass

• sod

• buffalo skins

Identify the Great Plains region using the map

• Green
• Yellow
• Pink
• Blue

The Great Plains region is well-known for their 

• rolling hills and small shrubs
• mountains and valleys
• flat, treeless prairies
• rivers and marshalnds

How did the invention pictured above enable settlers to live on the Great Plains? 

• It kept the farm cool.
• It improved communication between settlers.
• It allowed them to dig wells to access water.
• It created electricity that allowed them to use machines.

Which adaptation did nineteenth century farmers in the Great Plains use to have successful crop production?

• Organic farming
• Dry Farming
• Compost piles
• Crop rotation

Which one of these is NOT a feature of the Great Plains?

• Low rainfall
• Misty weather
• Frequent dust storms
• Flatlands that rise east to west

What is a homestead?

• frontier land claimed by a settler
• a steady home for soldiers
• a term used by many African Americans
• A name given to the first settlers to farm the Great Plains