Chapter 7: Midwest

An area of rough land in western South Dakota.

• Badlands
• blizzard

• Great Plains

• Central Plains

A destructive column of spinning air with winds that can reach more than 300 miles per hour.

• blizzard

• tornado

• junction

• hub

A heavy snowstorm with powerful winds.

• tornado

• earthquake

• blizzard

• hurricane

Level or gently rolling land covered in grasses.

• prairie
• trading post

• plow

• junction

The western part of the Midwest that is mostly prairie.

Switching between two crops, for example, planting corn one year, then soybeans the next.

A person who moves from place to place.

A tool used to turn over soil to get it ready for planting.

A small settlement where goods are traded.

A system of wide, fast roads connecting all the states.

• interstate highway

• transcontinental railroad

• steamboat

• junction