1. Good Morning & Afternoon! December 8th, 2010 What are three major industries in the West that rely most directly on natural resources? If you have no idea use your West Reading.

2. What are we doing today? BR Finish MW/West Reading Guides Study Guide work ? Review Collect Post cards Minnesota’s 3 rivers video

3. Reminders Due Tomorrow: Midwest reading guide West reading guide Lewis & Clark video guide Tomorrow you also have test #2 of the United States unit.

4. People who move to a new country to make a permanent home. Immigrants

5. Large pipes that carry water over long distances. Aqueducts

6. Division between national and state powers with a national president. Representative Democracy

7. The average number of days between the last frost of spring and the first frost of fall. Growing season

8. A tall building equipped with machinery for loading, cleaning, mixing, and storing grain. Grain Elevators

9. A dry, treeless plain that sprouts grasses and mosses only in summer. Tundra

10. The Midwest is a productive farming region because? It has: Fertile soil, Flat land, good growing climate

11. Which landform dominates the western region of the U.S.? The Rocky Mountains

12. The fertile soil and flat land of the Midwest helps make it the United State’s? Bread Basket

13. Which 3 natural resources are the MOST important to the economy of the west? Forestry and commercial fishing

14. In 1959 Hawaii became the ______ state of the United States? 50th State

15. Experts believe the first Americans came from? Asia

16. How did the first Americans get to the North American continent? The land bridge

17. In 1834 who patented the mechanical reaper? Cyrus McCormick

18. How long was the total trip from St. Louis to the Pacific and back again? 2 1/2 Years

19. What happened to Lewis 2 days into the Great Journey West? He almost died

20. This combines with particles of weathered bedrock to help build more soil. Humus

21. To withdraw from the national government. Secede

22. True or False: Both Lewis & Clark lived long, happy lives after returning from their great journey. False

23. How many people died on the Lewis & Clark expedition? 3: one man on the expedition and two Native Americans.

24. Minnesota leads the Midwest in the production of what natural resource? Iron Ore

25. Western lands contain valuable natural resources, name two of them. Gold, Silver, Copper, Oil, Forests, Ocean, Lakes and Rivers.

26. Name the four physical land features located in the west. Mountains and Plateaus, Pacific coastal plain, Hawaii, Alaska