Mixed
Dust
Bowl
Decade
Storms
100

What animals lived on the plains?

What is Prairie Dog, buffalo, buzzards, cayote, horses, Jack rabbit, snakes, mice.

100
The dust was made of this.
What is soil/dirt/sand?
100
This means very little rain.
What is drought?
100
This is when the rain finally came and ended the drought.
What is 1939?
100
The dust storms were called this.
What are Black Blizzards?
200
This is when the Dust Bowl began.
What is the 1930s
200

This happened on April 14, 1935.

What is Black Sunday?

200

This means very bad.

What is severe or calamity?

200
This is 10 years.
What is a decade?
200
This is what the farmers planted when they plowed the soil and removed the trees and grasses.
What is wheat?
300
This covered the land before the Dust Bowl.
What is grass?
300
This is the wearing down of rocks and soil.
What is erosion?
300

on pae 269, what eclipsed the sun?

What is a cloud of dust?

300
This is one natural cause of the dust bowl>
What is drought?
300
Many people packed up and left to go here.
What is California?
400
Farmers used this early tool to turn over the soil.
What is a horsedrawn plow?
400
Many people died from this.
What is dust pneumonia?
400
The government helped some farmers by doing this.
What is buying their cattle?
400
This cause of the dust bowl was man made.
What is over plowing and misusing the land?
400
This helped to end the decade long dust storms.
What is replowing the land into furrows, rotating crops and planting trees?
500

What information does the author give about prairie Dogs? 

Tunnels, what ate them, where they lived, how many there were, what lived with them, how big there burrows were etc

500
These are 3 states effected by the dust storms.
What are Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma?
500
These programs helped the farmers learn better ways to plow their fields in order to hold water and keep the soil from blowing away.
What are the soil conservation programs?
500
These are other states effected by the dust storms.
What are Colorado and New Mexico?
500
Another name for the area where the dust bowl took place is________________.
What is The Great Plains?
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