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28 Cards in this Set
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Explain how the people of the Great Lakes region depend on the physical environment to satisfy their basic needs.
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Good transportation and nearby natural resources help bring industries to the cities.
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The ______________ River is the longest river in the U.S.
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Mississippi
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The Masabi Range is located near what lake?
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Lake Superior
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migration
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the movement of many people who leave one country or region to settle in another
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List the 5 Great Lakes.
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Lake Huron
Lake Ontario Lake Michigan Lake Erie Lake Superior |
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shaman
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a spiritual leader
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List the 10 states the Mississippi River go past or through.
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Minnesota Kentucky
Wisconsin Tennessee Iowa Arkansas Illinois Mississippi Missouri Louisiana |
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Describe the impact of the assembly line on production of goods and services and how it was made possible.
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It made mass production possible which meand goods could be made quicker and cheaper.
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The Great Lakes were formed by a ____________ thousands of years ago.
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glacier
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capital resources
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the money, a building, a machine or a tool needed to run a business
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The many navigable rivers and leakes has helped the Middle West become a leading center of
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manufacturing
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barge
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a large flat-bottomed boat used on rivers and other inland waterways
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flatboat
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a large raft made of boards that are all tied together
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Name one reason Detroit became a center for the automobile industry.
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Because the rivers and lakes made it easy to ship steel to Detroit.
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Why would an industry want to be located near the natural resources it uses?
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it lowers the cost of transporting the resource
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What are the three factors of production?
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natural resources
human resources capital resources |
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The Illinois Water Way and the Illinois River connect Lake MIchigan with what river?
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The MIssissippi River
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The ____________ was cheaper to use on the rivers at that time.
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barge
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mass production
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a way of manufacturing in which many goods that are alike can be made quickly and cheaply
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How did flatboats move along the rivers?
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The flatboats had to move down stream.
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The ___________ was the fastest boat to use at that time.
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steamboat
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Many Pioneers used rivers as _______________ to carry them and their belongings west.
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transportation
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Rivers have always been important to travel and ___________
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trade
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HOw are most manufacturing goods made today?
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they are made on assembly lines.
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Why were steel mills built along the Great Lakes?
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Both iron ore and coal were found in nearby states.
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assembly line
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a line of workers along which a product moves as it is put together one step at a time
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Robert Fluton made the first money making steamboat called the ____________
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keelboat.
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Today most goods moving on the Mississippi River are transported by what?
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barges
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