States and Capitals
Southwest Vocabulary
West Vocabulary
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100
This is the capital of Arizona.
What is Phoenix?
100
This is a source of water underground.
What is an aquifer?
100
This is a mountain formed when lava cools and hardens onto Earth's surface.
What is a volcano?
100
Pueblo Indians of the Southwest made their homes from bricks made of __________________.
What is adobe?
100
The United States and Mexico came up with this resolution to use the water from the Rio Grande river responsibly.
What is the United States would allow Mexico to use the water, and Mexico would give up some of the water during times of drought.
200
This state's capital is Austin.
What is Texas?
200
This is a hill found in the Southwest with a flat top and steep sides.
What is a mesa?
200
This is a sudden shaking of the ground.
What is an earthquake?
200
The government decided to set aside __________________________ to protect the West's resources.
What is public land?
200
Describe the climate of the Southwest and describe why it is the way it is.
What is the climate is very arid, or dry, because it lies mostly in a rain shadow, the dry side of a mountain.
300
This is the capital of Montana.
What is Helena?
300
This is a person who moves around from place to place, usually following a food source.
What is a nomad?
300
This is melted rock.
What is lava?
300
During the California gold rush, ____________________ were people who went West seeking gold.
What are forty-niners?
300
List two effects caused by Spain invading the Southwest in the 1500's.
What are the Spanish people set up missions and forced the American Indians to go to their schools, and the American Indians taught the Spanish how to build with adobe.
400
This is the capital of California.
What is Sacramento?
400
This is land offered for free by the government to people wanting to settle in Oklahoma.
What is a land grant?
400
This is a town that grew rapidly due to settlers searching for gold.
What is a boomtown?
400
The ______________________________ is an imaginary line across the Rocky Mountains, directing the flow of rivers to either the east or west.
What is the Continental Divide?
400
The geography of the West is "extreme" for these reasons.
What is that the West contains the Rocky Mountains, forest land, and flat land for farming and ranching. It also has the highest place in the United States, Mt. McKinley, AK, and the lowest place in the United States, Death Valley, CA.
500
The capital of this state is Carson City.
What is Nevada?
500
This is a good that is made to be sold.
What is a commercial good?
500
This is electricity produced by water.
What is hydroelectricity?
500
Ranching and farming work was often done by ________________________ in the Southwest due to the arid climate and the need for temporary workers.
What are migrant workers?
500
The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad changed transportation and communication in this way.
What is people could now travel by train across the entire United States. The trip now took a couple of weeks instead of several months.
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