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Missouri History
Chapters 1-2
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History
4th Grade
04/03/2013

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Term
number of regions in Missouri
Definition
5
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Missouri's neighbors
Definition
Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska
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TomSauk Mountain
Definition
Missouri's highest mountain
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crinoid
Definition
Missouri's state fossil
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Marianne Moore
Definition
a Missouri poet from Kirkwood who is read around the world
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Virgil Thomas
Definition
a classical music writer whose pieces described American places
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ethnic group
Definition
a group of people who have ancestors from the same country
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barge
Definition
a huge, flat boat used for transportation along rivers
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plain
Definition
a large area of flat or nearly flat land
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border
Definition
a line that people agree on to separate two places
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Scott Joplin
Definition
a musician who helped create ragtime music
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immigrant
Definition
a person who leaves one country to live in another
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Langston Hughes
Definition
a poet from Joplin who used African American themes in his works
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ancestor
Definition
a relative from the past
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renewable resource
Definition
a resource that can be renewed or replaced
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Calamity Jane
Definition
a respected frontierswoman during the late 1800s
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tributary
Definition
a river that flows into another larger river
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glacier
Definition
a thick, moving sheet of ice
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region
Definition
an area with common features that set it apart from other areas
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
Definition
an author who wrote the "Little House" books that described life on the prairie
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volcano
Definition
an opening in the Earth's surface where hot gases and liquid rock burst forth
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pollution
Definition
anything that makes our soil, air, or water dirty
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folk art
Definition
art made by ordinary people
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weather
Definition
describes the air at a certain time and place
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landforms
Definition
different shapes that make up the surface of the earth
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3 things Missouri rivers provide
Definition
drinking
farming
businesses
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rural
Definition
farms, villages, and land with no people living on it
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4 types of recreation provided by Missouri's rivers
Definition
fishing
swimming
boating
sailing
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Osage Plain
Definition
flat with few rolling hills
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Alluvial River Plain
Definition
flood plain, very rich soil
Term
Mississippi River
Definition
forms the entire eastern border of Missouri
longest river in the U.S.
nickname: "The Father of Waters"
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Missouri River
Definition
forms the northwest border of Missouri
2nd longest river in the U.S.
nickname: "The Big Muddy"
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New Madrid
Definition
founded by Spanish settlers, which they named after their capital in Spain
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St. Genevieve
Definition
founded by the French and the oldest European settlement in Missouri
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George Washington Carver
Definition
from Diamond, Missouri, he became one of our country's greatest scientists
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Mark Twain
Definition
from Hannibal, he wrote about life along the Mississippi River
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Glaciated Till Plain
Definition
gently rolling plains and flat plains
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forces that shaped Missouri's landforms
Definition
glaciers, volcanoes, water
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plateau
Definition
high, flat landforms that rise steeply above the surrounding land
Term
examples of non-renewable resources
Definition
lead, fire clay, zinc
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Mississippi Lowland
Definition
once snake-filled swamp, now rich black soil
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George Caleb Bingham
Definition
painted life along the Missouri River
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Thomas Hart Benton
Definition
painted pictures of farmers and settlers
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customs
Definition
practices and traditions
Term
a way to use our resources wisely
Definition
recycle or reuse them
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non-renewable resources
Definition
resources that cannot be replaced
Term
silt
Definition
small particles of soil and sand
Term
natural resource
Definition
something found in nature that people can use
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Ozark Highland
Definition
steep hills and rocky soil
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conservation
Definition
the careful use of our natural resources
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slaves
Definition
the first Africans in Missouri
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climate
Definition
the pattern of weather over many years
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source
Definition
the place where a river begins
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mouth
Definition
the place where a river flows into another larger body of water
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slavery
Definition
the practice of making one person the property of another
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erosion
Definition
the process by which water and wind wear away the top layer of soil
Term
heritage
Definition
the special way of doing things that people share
Term
geography
Definition
the study of the Earth and the things on it
Term
environment
Definition
the surroundings in which people, plants, or animals live
Term
population
Definition
the total number of people who live in an area
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culture
Definition
the way of life of a group of people
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urban
Definition
towns, cities, and the communities around them
Term
examples of renewable resources
Definition
trees, soil, water, wildlife, people
Term
precipitation
Definition
water that falls to Earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail
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recreation
Definition
what people do in order to relax and enjoy themselves
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Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Definition
wrote many stories about life along the Mississippi River
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