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Physical features of great plains

• Flatlands that gradually rise and fall

• Lands eroded by wind and water

• Low rainfall

• Frequent dust storms

• Lots of Rainfall

  No flatlands

Climate of Great Plains

• Flatlands that gradually rise and fall

• Lands eroded by wind and water

• Low rainfall

• Frequent dust storms

• Lots of Rainfall

  No flatlands

Which of the following are new inventions

• Barbed wire

• Steel plows

• Railroads

• Windmills

• Sod houses

Which of the following are adaptations

• beef cattle

• Steel plows

• dry farming

• wheat farming

• Sod houses

which of the following are transportation resources

• moving natural resources east to factories

  iron ore to Steel mills

• transporting finished products to the market

• factories near rivers and railroads to move

  resources and products to markets

• there were no transportation resources

Match the following

• innovatin

• the act or process of changing or altering

• relocatino

• understanding

  the way you think about or understand someone/something

• adaptation

• to conform to the customs of a group or nation

  (ADAPT and ADJUST)

• perception

• to move to a different location

• assimiliation

• process of adjusting

  (conforming to a new condition)

Match the following

• wasteland

• land that is barren

• vast

• immense

  very great size

• erosion

• process by which the surface of the earth is worn away by

  (Water, glaciers, wind, waves)

Match the following

• dry farming

• farming practiced in regions with insufficient rainfall

  (tillage methods)

• sod

• trade

• textile

• cloth

• market

• strips of dirt, mud, or grass

Match the following

• barbed wire

• allowed food to be grown in dry areas

• steel plows

• broke through tough soil

• dry farming

• provided shelter in an area without a lot of trees

• sod houses

• created pastures

  Keeping things out

  NOT TO KEEP ANIMALS INSIDE

Match the following

• windmills

• planted before harsh winters and harvested before hot dry summers

• beef cattle raising

• practical solution to local wild cattle (finding them)

• wheat farming

• allowed quicker more efficient way to transport food and people

• railroads

• provided a source of water