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The feature that covers much of Arizona and New Mexico.
What are deserts?
100
A sudden, heavy rain.
What is a cloudburst?
100
Texas became an independent nation after this.
What is the war between Texas and Mexico?
100
A natural resource found in the Southwest.
What is oil or gas?
100
This word means to work together.
What is cooperate?
200
This feature in the Southwest are deep ditches created by natural processes.
What are arroyos?
200
A person who moves place to place and does not have a permanent home.
What is a nomad?
200
This led to Oklahoma becoming a state.
What is the Oklahoma Land Rush?
200
Something that can be proved to be true.
What are facts?
200
Another name for Native American houses in the Southwest.
What are pueblos?
300
This is a hill with a flat top and steep sides.
What is a mesa?
300
A religious settlement.
What is a mission?
300
This is the river that caused conflicts between the United States and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
300
Made-up writing.
What is fiction?
300
This is where animals can graze and grow until being sold, usually on the arid land.
What is a ranch?
400
A type of land that is dry.
What is arid?
400
The use of canals, ditches, or pipes to bring water to dry places.
What is irrigation?
400
When United States soldiers forced the Cherokee to move to the Indian Territory.
What is the Trail of Tears?
400
Arroyos, aquifers, and reservoirs.
What are sources of water in the Southwest?
400
A human made lake.
What is a reservoir?
500
A steep hill of rock with a flat top, smaller than a mesa.
What is a butte?
500
Someone who moves place to place, doing one job after another.
What is a migrant worker?
500
The year the Trail of Tears occurred.
What is 1838?
500
The drier side of mountains.
What is rain shadow?
500
Names of the Southwest states.
What are Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona?
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