11-19 Social Studies Regions of Missouri

Geography does not affect where and how people live.

Geography plays a major role in where and how people live.

Rich rivers bottom soil supported agriculture and transportation.

Fertile river bottom ground supported large communities.

Rivers were like highways.

All of the above.

Rivers were close and made it easy to deliver the wood to market.

The rolling hills of the Ozark were covered with dense hard wood.

The beauty of the landscape drew people to this region.

All of the above.

Archelogical evidence indicates few large settlements were in this area in prehistoric times.

People settled here for the granite and lead.

Later the Ozarks were inhabited by loggers. The lumber was used for ties for the nations railroads.

All of the above.

During the iceages glaciers formed this region.

After the glaciers melted the land became covered with rich soil.

Soils sustains extensive agriculture in this region.

All of the above.

Short prarie grass, more common in the southwest, grows here.

The region was named after the Osage Tribe.

The great bufflao heards roamed here and the shelter of the Ozark woodlands was close by.

Soil is not as deep and crops are not as important as livestock and grazing.

All of the above.

Once an area of magnificant hardwood forest, swamps and wetlands, today most of the timber is down and the swamps are drained.

Water from floods created a unique water habitat similar to the swamps in the south.

The cleared land provides another agricultural resource in the state.

All of the above.