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| Name the Great Lakes | Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario |
| Illinois Waterway | connects Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River |
| Mississippi River | provides transportation of goods from the Illinois Waterway to the Gulf of Mexico |
| St. Lawrence Seaway | links the Great Lakes with the St. Lawrence River which flows into the Atlantic Ocean |
| waterway | a system of rivers, lakes, and canals through which many ships travel |
| canal | one kind of waterway that has been dug through land for ships to go through |
| lock | a gated part of a canal or river which allows the water level to be raised or lowered |
| barges | flat bottomed boats which transport goods inexpensively, but slowly through the Great Lakes and onto the Atlantic Ocean |
| Great Lakes formation | thousands of years ago glaciers carved channels or pits which filled with water as glaciers melted |
| zebra mussels' positive effect on the Great Lakes | They make the water clearer, and perhaps cleaner. |
| Zebra mussels negative effect on the Great Lakes | can wipe out an entire species of clams & can clog city water pipes |
| line graph use | can show how something has changed over time |
| bar graph use | can show changes over time & used to compare amounts |
| shaped the South Dakota Badlands | erosion |
| Badlands National Park | a national park in southwestern SD with fantastic rock formations |
| badlands | regions of dry hills and sharp cliffs formed of crumbling rock |
| erosion | wearing away of rock by water and wind |
| prairie | areas of less rainfall than forests, where grasses grow well, but trees are rare |
| earlier climate of Badlands | much warmer and more humid than today |
| caused badlands change in climate | rise of Black Hills and Rocky Mts. to the west, blocking rain |
| Sue Hendrickson | discovered one of the largest tyrannosaurus fossils ever found |
| how erosion helps uncover fossils | water and wind wear away the rock exposing buried fossils |
| animals of the Badlands | birds, mammals, reptiles, porcupines, prairie dogs, sheep & bison |
| Midwest region - America's Breadbasket | one of the world's leading farming regions |
| the Cornbelt | Central Plains |
| the Wheatbelt | Great Plains |
| Central Plains | part of the plains that gets plenty rainfall |
| Great Plains | gets less rainfall than the Cornbelt |
| 2 main crops grown on the Central Plains | corn and soybeans |
| main crops grown on the Great Plains | wheat, oats, barley, and sunflowers |
| corn fed hogs | raised on the Central Plains |
| grain-fed cattle | raised on the Great Plains |
| crops raised in Michigan | apples, cherries, peaches, plums, blueberries, grapes, & strawberries |
| products of Wisconsin | dairy products such as milk and cheese |
| irrigation | bringing water for farms from rivers or from deep underground |
| crop rotation | planting of different crops in different years to replace nutrients to the soil |
| Badlands - millions of years ago | rivers flowed through lush, green plains |
| capital of Wisconsin WI | Madison |
| capital of Michigan MI | Lansing |
| capital of Minnesota MN | St. Paul |
| capital of North Dakota ND | Bismarck |
| capital of South Dakota SD | Pierre |
| capital of Nebraska NE | Lincoln |
| capital of Kansas KS | Topeka |
| capital of Iowa IA | Des Moines |
| capital of Indiana IN | Indianapolis |
| capital of Illinois IL | Springfield |
| capital of Ohio OH | Columbus |
| capital of Missouri MO | Jefferson City |
