The Midwest

An area of flat or rolling land covered mostly with wildflowers and grasses

• Prairie
• Meadow
• Desert

a funnel-shaped, spinning windstorm, sometimes called a cyclone or twister

• hurricane
• earthquake
• tornado

a long time with little or no rain

• drought
• storm
• monsoon

rock that contains enough of one or more kind of minerals to be mined

• ore
• stone
• mineral

a drawing that shows the steps in a process

• Process map
• Flowchart
• Sequence diagram

to change in order to make more useful, such as fitting one's way of living into a new environmnet

• Transform

• Adapt

• Adjust

to measure, especially land

• measure
• calculate
• survey

a square section of land in the Northwest Territory that is 6 miles on each side; each township was divided into 36 smaller squares of land to be sold to settlers

• Plot

• Township

• Section

a law or set of laws

• decree
• ordinance
• regulation

land beyond the settled part of a country

• frontier
• wilderness
• outpost