Southwestern Land & Labor
Which 4 states makes up the Southwest?
What is Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona?
What is the gradual process of wearing away soil and rock known as?
What is erosion?
What was the name of the place where soldiers lived to protect missions?
What is a presidio?
What is "The Long Walk"?
In what city was the largest meat-packing plant located? Leading to the need for cattle drives?
Where was Chicago?
Approximately how many gallons of water is needed to grow the food for a typical family dinner?
What is 1,200 gallons?
Which Western states share the Pacific Coastline?
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What active volcano in the Cascade Range erupted violently in 1980?
What are California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska?
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What is Mount Saint Helens?
What is a level, frozen area in the far north where the temperatures are so cold that trees cannot grow?
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What is the state bird of Hawaii?
What is tundra?
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What is the nene?
What is the top-producing farms state in the nation?
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The above grows 100% of the nation's __________.
What is California?
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What are almonds?
What is defined as a large area of land set aside for raising livestock?
What is a ranch?
What is the name of the geographical area made up of countries that border the Pacific Ocean?
What is the Pacific Rim?
What is a basin?
What are low, slightly hollowed areas of land?
What are the two main rivers in the Southwest region?
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Approximately, how long is the the river (mentioned above) that forms part of the border between Texas and Mexico?
What are Rio Grande and the Colorado River?
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What is 1900 miles?
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and Father Marcos de Niza both brought along this man, when searching for "cities of gold."
Who was Estevan?
What event occurred in the year 1836 in Texas?
What are snowbirds?
What are people from states with cold climates, who come to enjoy warmer weather?
What are systems with pipes that carry water long distances?
What are aqueducts?
What are the 3 major mountain ranges in the West?
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What is the largest lake in Alaska?
What are the Rocky Mountains, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and the Cascades?
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What is Lake Iliamna?
A majority of areas in the West possess what type of climate? Describe it.
What is a moderate climate? Warm, not hot, summers and cool, not cold winters.
What is a totem pole?
What is a prospector?
Who are people that search for gold or other minerals?
What is a major problem facing people in the west, and why?
What is water scarcity due to overpopulation?
How did the Grand Canyon form?
What is the fact that the Colorado River eroded surrounded rock over millions of years to form it?
What is the predominate climate of the region?
What is arid or semiarid?
This ancient culture built cliff dwellings in present-day New Mexico and Arizona.
Who were the Puebloans?
In what year was Texas annexed to the United States? And what war did it lead to?
When is 1845 and it led to the Mexican-American War?
What do you call the frames that hold the drills to oil?
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What do you call an oil well that shoots up out of the ground?
What are oil derricks?
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What is a gusher?
What are the two main sources of water? Explain both.
What is groundwater and surface water? Groundwater is water that is underground (such as an aquifer) and surface water is self-explanatory and includes such things as lakes, streams, and rivers.
A break in Earth's crust that is created by the movement of giant blocks of Earth (tectonic plates), is known as what?
What is a fault?
Which state in the West has the hottest place in all the region? Which state has the most extreme winter temperatures?
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Approximately how many inches of rain per year does Mount Waialeale get in Hawaii?
What is California (Death Valley) and Alaska?
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What is 450 inches?
Provide examples of the income brought in by farming, forestry, and fishing.
What is farming income comes from beef, milk, and sheep products? Forestry income comes from lumber, and fishing income comes from the Pacific Coast.
In what year did the California Gold Rush begin?
When is 1849?
Define exports and imports.
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Provide two examples of each that are imported or exported in the west.
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For export: movies, computer software, seafood, minerals, and agricultural products.
For import: electronics, cars, meat, minerals, clothing, toys.
What does it mean to be a World Heritage Site?
What is, it means that it is a place on Earth that is prized for its unique cultural or natural environment?
What is a body of air with the same temperature and humidity?
And what does it form when it clashes with another of its kind?
What is an air mass, that forms a tornado when contrasting air masses clash?
In what year did Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and his companion hear about "cities of gold" while traveling through present-day Texas?
What was the name of the Texan president when Texas became its own country?
Who was Sam Houston?
What reservoir did the Hoover Dam create once it was built on the Colorado River?
What is Lake Mead?
In what city and in what year was the first air conditioned office building opened?
What is San Antonio in 1928?
What is the Great Salt Lake an example of...hint: it does not flow into another body of water?
What is a sump lake?
Describe the life cycle of a salmon. Additionally, what is their biggest threat beyond overfishing?
What is their life begins in freshwater rivers of the Pacific Northwest, they travel downstream to live in the Pacific Ocean as adults, then they swim back up the rivers to lay their eggs?
Their biggest threat are dams that prevent salmon from returning to their spawning grounds.
What 4 cities in the west were some of the largest in the country by 1920?
What are Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Denver?
The high-tech industry is important to the west's economy. What is the name of the area where many in this industry call home? Why?
What is "Silicon Valley" because silicon is a mineral that is used to make computer parts?
Describe 4 causes of erosion.
What are rivers (such as the Colorado) flowing through an area, what is rainwater (that washes away dirt, soil, and rock), what are melting and moving glaciers, and what is wind that picks up sand and blows it against rocks and mountains?
What were the two main goals of missions?
What was to teach Christian beliefs to the Native Americans and to claim land for Spain?
Cowhands, cattle trails, and cattle drives - describe each.
What are the four fastest growing metropolitan areas in the Southwest, that were mentioned in the text?
What are Houston, TX; San Antonio, TX; Dallas, TX; and Phoenix, AZ?
Provide the 5 things people do in the Southwest to adapt to water shortages.
What is:
1) The use drip irrigation (which brings small amounts of water directly to the roots)
2) Use of gray water, another name for recycled water (don't drink it!)
3) New and efficient showers, toilets, and washing machines.
4) Water lawns early in the morning or at night.
5) Don't wash cars often.
What are the 11 states of the West?
What is California, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii?
What is warm, moist air from the Pacific Ocean forms clouds that move up the mountains? The clouds cool as they rise and moisture falls. When the clouds reach the other of the mountains (the eastern side), they have lost most of their moisture.
In 1542, this Spanish explorer became the first European to travel along the Californian coast.
Who was Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo?
What is Hawaii and Alaska?
Hawaii was an important stop on the trading route to Asia. Alaska was purchased from Russia and initially considered a waste of money, however not once oil and gold were discovered!
Portland, Oregon is a major innovator in "green" living. Describe 4 reasons why?
What is bike lanes throughout the city, free public transportation, locally grown produce, and a strong recycling program?