Chapter 8: Exploring the Midwest
Across
- 2. A line of workers along which a product moves and is put together one step at a time.
- 5. A person who first settles a place.
- 8. People who start new businesses.
- 10. A long period of little or no rain.
- 11. The movement of people from one place to another.
- 12. When a product is made more quickly and cheaply by using machines.
- 14. An area of flat or rolling land covered mostly with grasses and wildflowers.
- 16. A large raft made of boards tied together.
- 17. A place where livestock is bought, sold, and help for shipment.
- 19. Rock that has one or more kinds of minerals.
- 20. A layer of soil held together by the roots of grasses.
Down
- 1. Doing almost everything for yourself.
- 3. Measure
- 4. A square section of land.
- 6. When most goods are made by machines and in factories.
- 7. The lands beyond settlement.
- 9. A boat powered by steam.
- 13. Set of laws.
- 15. Change ways of life.
- 18. A funnel-shaped, spinning windstorm.