Contributing Factors
Three major contributing factors of the Dustbowl
What is...
-The over-planting of wheat
-ripping out native grasses
-drought
The Southwest is a region with cold winters.
What is false?
A natural resource we rely heavily on in this classroom
What is timber?
What is renewable?
Billie Jo traveled with this musician.
Who is Arley Wanderdale?
This is the choice some people made to better their lives during the Dust Bowl storms.
What is migrate to California?
Soil is a renewable resource.
Fossil fuels release this when they are burned.
What is carbon dioxide?
A percentage of water available to humans.
This region produces a lot of fish, crab, and lobster.
What is the Northeast region?
This is one of the first contributing factors of the Dustbowl.
What is the Great Depression?
What is stock market crash?
True
Iphone's contain this natural resource.
What is ore?
This word describes a lack of water in a region.
What is drought?
This is one of the longest rivers in the United States.
What is the Mississippi
What is the Rio Grande river
What is the Colorado River
The United States government paid farmers to plant these two crops.
What are alfalfa and clover?
People were unable to get their money when the stock market crashed.
What is true?
Oil can be found in these regions.
Three sustainable actions to saving water.
What is
-turning off the sink when you brush your teeth or do dishes
-not flushing as often
-taking shorter showers
-combining loads of laundry
Two artists during the Dustbowl era.
Who are Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans?
Who is Woody Guthrie?
President Roosevelt rolled out several initiatives to help people, their farms, and soil erosion.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps' initiative to plant trees to provide windbreak?
What is the FSA (Farm Security Administration buying ruined land to restore it?
Soil is a non renewable resource.
What is true?
These are all the types of natural resources we use.
What is:
-fossil fuels (oil, coal, natural gas)
-water
-soil
-timber
-ore
What are AI data centers?
Name two symbols and what they symbolize from Out of the Dust.
What is:
-piano; symbolizes mental escape for Billie Jo of the troubles she endures.
-apples; symbolize fertility and Ma