Notebook Work: Label the top of your notebook page with "LESSON 54." Write the answers to the below questions in your notebook. Make sure to number your answers.

Trace the Mississippi from its source in Minnesota (Minn.) to the Mississippi River Delta in the Gulf of Mexico.

If you sailed a boat down the Mississippi from north to south, you'd observe changes in your surroundings.

1. How would the climate change?

2. What name is given to this part of the land through which the river flows?

3. What scenes could we expect to see on the shores of the river?

4. What products would the boats we pass be carrying?

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