Midwest Vocabulary Words

A prairie is...

• flat or rolling area covered with grass

• to measure and study an area of land

• process of becoming city like

SOD means...

• wheeled boat

• a piece of grass-covered topsoil held together with twisting roots

• fenced yard

A steamboat is...

• local government

• rectangular wooden boat

• paddle-wheeled boat powered by a steam engine

A stockyard is...

• a fenced yard where herds are held before being sent somewhere else

• unsettled land beyond of settled cities and towns

• person who travels to an unknown land

A survey is....

• section of a county in the US with a local government

• to measure and study an area of land

• factory workers, machines

A township is...

• process of becoming city-like

• long period of time without rain

• a section of a county in the US with its own local government

Urbanization is...

• The state or process of becoming city-like

• people moving from one place to another

• law made by a government

The Assembly line is...

• Factory workers or machines arranged to put together a product step by step

• an efficient way of making things

• long period without rain

A drought is...

• an unusually long period of time with little rain

• people moving from one place to another

• law made by the government

A flatboat is...

• a person who travels to an unknown land

• unsettle land beyond settled cities

• rectangular wooden boat with a flat bottom for moving goods on rivers