Unit 4
Chapter Eight
The Interior Plains
| prairie | an area of flat or rolling land covered mostly by grasses and wildflowers |
| drought | a time of little or no rain |
| blizzard | a snowstorm driven by strong, freezing winds |
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hailstorm |
drops of hail, or lumps of ice, that can damage or destroy crops |
| tornado |
a funnel-shaped, spinning windstorm |
| pictograph |
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| sod |
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| self-sufficient | doing mostly everything by yourself |
| fertilizer | matter held to the soil to help crops grow |
| urbanization | the spread of city life |
| sequence | the order in which one thing comes after another |
| entrepreneur | a person who sets up a new business |
| free enterprise | a kind of economy in which people own and run their own businesses with only limited control by the government |
| demand | a need or a desire for a good or service by people who are willing to pay for it |
| supply | a good or service that a business offers for sale |
| meat packing | the preparing of meat for market |
| route | a path from one place to another |
| interstate highway | a highway that goes through more than one state |
| toll road | a road that drivers must pay to use |
| gaucho | skilled
riders who lived on the open land of the |
| estancias | large ranches |