Gallopade 5th Grade Chapter 2 Vocabulary

The upper layer of soil with grass growing on it.

• range

• prairie

• plain

• sod

Choose the correct definition of hardy

• able to be eaten by humans

• able to be eaten by farm animals

• able to live through difficult conditions

• able to live only in certain conditions

A person who moves to live in an area that has no or few previous inhabitants

• settler

• immigrant

• Indian

• homestead

The broad, flat region that stretches between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains in North America

• Great Plains

• Great Plateau

• Great Basin

• Death Valley

Choose the correct word to complete the dictionary entry. Cultivate: to prepare and use land for ________

• crops

• building

• railroads

• windmills

a strong type of wire with sharp point on it, often used to separate plots of land

• homestead wire

• sod wire

• barbed wire

• cattle wire

Choose the correct definition of immigrant

• a person who travels from one country to another

• a person who learns about new culture in another country

• a person who returns home after visiting another country

• a person who moves from one country to another to live in another country

homestead

• a house and surrounding area of land

• a law that required people to leave their homes

• a house made of dirt and grass

• a law that gave American Indians homes