Canyons to Coast
Deserts and Oil
Wells:Oil and Water
Geography Latitude/
Longitude
Anything Goes
100
Grand Canyon
What is the name of the largest canyon?
100
Dry with less than 10 inches of rain per year.
What is a desert.
100
Natural spring, Build a dam, Dig a well
What are three ways which people from the Southwest get water.?
100
These lines measure distance in degrees North or south.
What are lines of latitude?
100
Water and oil
What are the two most important resources?
200
The Coastal Plain and the Great Plains
What are the two major plains found in the Southwest?
200
The Coastal Plain
Which plain has a warm any rainy climate with forests?
200
Aqueducts
What carries water to cities and farms?
200
Parallels
What is another name for lines of latitude?
200
Adapt
What it means to be able to change in offer to survive in a particular climate.
300
Canyons, mesas, and buttes
What are three major landforms found in this region?
300
Black Gold
What is the nickname for Crude oil?
300
Gasoline and heating oil
What are the two parts that crude oil is separated in a refinery?
300
Prime Meridian
Where do you start measuring lines of longitude?
300
Arizona
Which state would you,find the Grand Canyon?
400
Colorado River
What was the Grand Canyon formed by?
400
Copper, uranium, and silver
What are the three minerals mined in the Southwest?
400
Petrochemicals
What is used to make other kinds of products?
400
Longitude
What is the name of the lines that measure the distance East or West?
400
Rocky Mountains
What mountain range runs through the southwest region?
500
Erosion
What process caused the landforms in the SW?
500
Oil
What resources supply grew after 1901?
500
Limited supply
Why must we conserve or not waste our natural resources?
500
33 N 112 W
What is an example of a geographical address?
500
Dust Bowl
What is the name of the storm that caused many to flee their homes and work on other farms?
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