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20 Cards in this Set
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livestock
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farm animals
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line graph
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shows how information changes over time
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prairie
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flat area covered with tall grasses and wildflowers; very fertile soil; huge farms
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iron
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metal used in making steel
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taconite
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flint-like rock that contains smaller iron minerals
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Great Plains
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high, fairly dry plain; the western part of the Interior Plains
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tornado
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dangerous storm that forms into a fast-moving funnel of wind
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lake effect
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gentler climate around the Great Lakes
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Mount Rushmore National Memorial
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faces of four US presidents carved into the Black Hills of South Dakota
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Mesabi Range
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a group of hills in Minnesota that is the source of most iron ore in the US
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Black Hills
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mountains in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming
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circle graph
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pie graph; each piece shows how the parts make up, or fit into the whole
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Central Plains
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eastern part of the Interior Plains; lower in elevation and have more rainfall that Great Plains
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ore
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a rock that contains a metal, such as iron
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Calvin Coolidge
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US president at the time of the Mt. Rushmore Dedication
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Gutzon Borglum
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sculptor who began work on Mt. Rushmore in 1927
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reclamation
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miners restoring land to its old shape by planting trees, grass, and other plants
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open-pit mining
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strip mining; bulldozers clear awayall plants and soil; miners use explosives and giant shovels to dig the iron out
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blizzard
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winter storm with temperature below 20 degrees; strong winds; lots of snow
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graph
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special diagrams that show information in a clear way
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