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WorksheetsMidwest & Southwest Regions Practice
Total questions: 33
Worksheet time: 17mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is your name?
4 lines
2.
1. What is the state shown in red?
a)
Kansas
b)
Wisconsin
c)
Ohio
d)
Michigan
3.
2. What state is shown in red?
a)
Minnesota
b)
South Dakota
c)
Missouri
d)
Illinois
4.
3. What state is shown in red?
a)
North Dakota
b)
South Dakota
c)
Indiana
d)
Kansas
5.
4. What state is shown in red?
a)
Illinois
b)
Idaho
c)
Minnesota
d)
Iowa
6.
5. What state is shown in red?
a)
Nebraska
b)
Ohio
c)
Indiana
d)
Michigan
7.
6. What state is shown in red?
a)
Illinois
b)
South Dakoat
c)
Wisconsin
d)
Ohio
8.
7. What state is shown in red?
a)
Missouri
b)
Kansas
c)
Indiana
d)
Michigan
9.
8. What state is shown in red?
a)
Nebraska
b)
Minnesota
c)
Kansas
d)
Indiana
10.
9. What state is shown in red?
a)
South Dakota
b)
Nebraska
c)
Iowa
d)
Missouri
11.
10. What state is shown in red?
a)
Indiana
b)
Minnesota
c)
Michigan
d)
Ohio
12.
11. What state is shown in red?
a)
Missouri
b)
Kansas
c)
Michigan
d)
Minnesota
13.
12. What state is shown in red?
a)
South Dakota
b)
Kansas
c)
Illinois
d)
Wisconsin
14.
13. What state is shown in red?
a)
Texas
b)
Arizona
c)
New Mexico
d)
Oklahoma
15.
14. What state is shown in red?
a)
Oklahoma
b)
Texas
c)
Arizona
d)
New Mexico
16.
15. What state is shown in red?
a)
New Mexico
b)
Texas
c)
Arizona
d)
Oklahoma
17.
16. What state is shown in red?
a)
Oklahoma
b)
New Mexico
c)
Texas
d)
Arizona
18.
17. What is a flat-bottomed boat that carries goods through lakes and rivers?
a)
erosion
b)
drought
c)
barge
d)
irrigation
19.
18. What is an area where grass grows well, but trees are rare?
a)
sod
b)
prairie
c)
badlands
d)
barge
20.
19. What is a region of dry hills and sharp cliffs?
a)
prairie
b)
sod
c)
badlands
d)
drought
21.
20. What is a long period with little or no rain?
a)
drought
b)
waterway
c)
irrigation
d)
prairie
22.
21. What is another name for "mud brick"?
a)
refinery
b)
adobe
c)
savanna
d)
aqueduct
23.
22. What is a factory where crude oil is separated?
a)
prospector
b)
pueblo
c)
savanna
d)
refinery
24.
23. What is another name for a "village"?
a)
pueblo
b)
adobe
c)
timberline
d)
rain shadow
25.
24. What is a grassy area with little rainfall?
a)
rain shadow
b)
adobe
c)
aqueduct
d)
savanna
26.
25. What makes up the largest freshwater system in the world?
a)
Mississippi River
b)
Great Lakes
c)
Gulf of Mexico
d)
Rock Creek Lake
27.
26. What caused pioneers to rush to claim Midwest land in the 1800's?
a)
The Treaty of Paris
b)
The Declaration of Independence
c)
The American Revolution
d)
The Homestead Act
28.
27. Lewis and Clark were sent to explore the Louisiana Territory in hopes to find what?
a)
A trail to the Pacific West
b)
Native Americans that were friendly
c)
A new land
d)
Gold
29.
28. True or False? The Central Plains and Great Plains receive the same amount of rain causing farmers to raise the same kind of crops in both areas of the Midwest.
a)
True
b)
False
30.
29. Why did ranchers drive their cattle along the Chisholm Trail from Texas to Kansas?
a)
To pay Native Americans a toll to drive them across their land
b)
To get away and enjoy a vacation
c)
To ship them on trains to other parts of the country
d)
So they didn't have to brand them or keep them fenced in
31.
30. Which landform was eroded by the Colorado River and is over 270 miles long and 18 miles wide?
a)
Sonoran Desert
b)
Rocky Mountains
c)
Grand Canyon
d)
Mississippi River
32.
31. Which is NOT true about the oil industry in the Southwest?
a)
Oil starts as crude oil and is taken from underground
b)
Oil is refined in factories to make many products
c)
Oil was discovered as a gusher at Beaumont, Texas, in 1901
d)
Oil has few uses, and is only found in the Southwest
33.
32. What was Annie Oakley famous for?
a)
Inventing the air conditioner in the Southwest.
b)
Leading Lewis and Clark through the Louisiana Territory
c)
Entertaining people with her sharpshooting skills in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
d)
Discovering oil at Spindletop in Texas in 1901
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