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17 Cards in this Set
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Land between the mountain ranges
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Interior Plains
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What two parts make up the Interior Plains?
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Central Plains and Great Plains
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Low plains, covered by gentle hills,
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Central Plains
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Plains with high elevation, mostly a dry grassland
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Great Plains
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A flat area thickly covered with tall grasses and wildflowers
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Prairie
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Farm animals, such as cattle, pigs, and chickens.
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Livestock
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The relationship between the distance shown on a map and the real distance on Earth
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Scale
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Winds blowing across the Great Lakes cool the land in summer and carry warmer air in winter
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Lake Effect
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Period of little or no rain
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Drought
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A destructive funnel of high winds
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Tornado
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Metal used to make steel
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Iron
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Rock that contains a metal, such as iron.
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Ore
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Place where the largest amounts of ore were discovered in the Middle West
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Mesabi Range
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Method of mining in which huge shovels dig out ore.
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Open-pit mining
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The restoring of land
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Reclamation
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Major port for shipping iron ore
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Deluth, Minnesota
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Very high buildings
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Skyscrapers
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