| A | B |
|---|
| prairie | plain or hilly region within the temperate zone that is covered by grasses |
| The prairie is called the... | sea of grasses |
| the midwest is one of the nation's richest food-producing regions, so it is called | the bread basket of the US |
| The plains' two most important animals | prairie dogs and bison |
| The largest animals in the Western Hemisphere | bison |
| Hundreds of millions of these lived in the vast underground "towns" that stretched endlessly over the prairies | prairie dogs |
| Mount Rushmore | is a huge monument with carvings of the faces of the Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln |
| The longest river in the US | Mississippi |
| The chief tributary of the Mississippi and is the 2nd longest in North America | Missouri |
| The Missouri River | a system that forms one of the greatest inland waterways in the world |
| The world's largest gulf | Gulf of Mexico |
| Indians who were named for the moccasins they wore | Blackfoot |
| Indian tribe name which means "friends" or "allies" | Dakota |
| A Sioux medicine man and chief | Sitting Bull |
| What was the most important animal to the Indians of the plains? | buffalo |
| What was a favorite animal of the Plains Indians for both hunting and eating? | prairie chicken |
| How did the Indians use all the parts of the buffalo? | ate the meat, drank the milk, they made shoes and clothing out of the hides, burned the manure, tools out of the bones |
| What 2,000 foot mountains are just west of the Mississippi in the states of Missouri and Arkansas? | Ozarks |
| What important Atlantic current begins in the Gulf of Mexico? | Gulf Stream |
| What is the time of little rain or no rain called? | drought |
| What are the dried up plants the break off from their roots and roll across the plains called? | tumbleweeds |
| Who drove the Cheyenne Indians onto the central plains? | Ojibwa (Chippewa) Indians |
| What Sioux medicine man claimed to have a vision of white soldiers falling into his camp? | Sitting Bull |
| In what battle did the Sioux Indians defeat General Custer and his soldiers? | Battle of the Little Bighorn |
