| A | B |
|---|
| wheat | an easy crop to grow with dry-farming |
| cattle | animals raised for food and money |
| windmills | technology used to pump water from wells |
| railroads | technology that helped Americans move west faster |
| steel plow | technology that allowed farmers to break up soil easily |
| sod houses | houses created from the soil |
| low rainfall and dust storms | physical climate of the Great Plains |
| treeless, flat, grasslands | physical features of the Great Plains |
| new technology | what allowed people to adapt to life on the Great Plains |
| Texas | where most of the large cattle ranches began |
| Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota | the states where the Great Plains are found |
| "treeless wasteland" | how people saw the Great Plains before the Civil War |
| A vast area to be settled | how people saw the Great Plains after the Civil War |
| erosion | when the wind and rain move the soil from its original place |
| barbed wire | technology that allowed people to make fences |
| inventions | steel plow, barbed wire, railroads |
| adaptations | dry-farming, cattle ranches, sod houses |
