Agriculture Changes In The Midwest

Question 1

What did Cyrus McCormick invent

Answer 1

Cyrus McCormick invented the reaper in 1834

Question 2

What did John Deere invent

Answer 2

John Deere invented the steel plow in 1837

Question 3

What is sod

Answer 3

A mixture of dirt and roots of grass

Question 4

What does Canning mean

Answer 4

Preserving food by cooking and sealing it in cans or jars

Question 5

What does dairy mean

Answer 5

A form that produces milk and milk products

Question 6

What does pesticide mean

Answer 6

A substance used on crops to kill insects and other pest

Question 7

What does agribusiness mean

Answer 7

Farming on a large scale by big companies

Question 8

What does reaper mean

Answer 8

A machine for cutting grain

Question 9

What is the combine mean

Answer 9

A machine for cutting and threashing grain

Question 10

What does fertilizer mean

Answer 10

A substance added to the soil to improve plants growth

Question 11

What does self-sufficient mean

Answer 11

Doing everything necessary to take care of yourself on your own

Question 12

How did people in America use corn in the pass

Answer 12

They use corn husks to make things like basket shoes masks and bed frames and the dried corn cobs for fuel they also chewed the leaves from the corn

Question 13

How do people use corn in America today

Answer 13

Today we use corn for cornstarch made from corn animal feed such as cows and pigs food like breakfast cereals and tortilla chips fuel corn swerener and dried corn products they also used to something called ethanol for fuel cornstarch is like utensils that decomposes

Question 14

Almost all Americans lived on

Answer 14

Farms in the 1800s

Question 15

About blank acres each

Answer 15

Ten

Question 16

They had to blank the land first

Answer 16

Clear

Question 17

Blank had rich soil

Answer 17

Prairies

Question 18

Tools they used were blank tools blank to cut down trees the lucky ones had blank planted by blank blank used to harvest blank

Answer 18

Simple simple tools
Axes axes to cut down trees the lucky ones had 
Oxen the lucky ones had oxen 
Hand planter bye hand and scythe
Scythe
Grain used to harvest grain