Vocabulary
canyon
What is a deep, narrow valley with steep sides?
What do the natural features of our country teach us (two things)?
What are lessons about Geography and History?
Two SW states that are the largest producers of oil in the U.S.
What are Texas and Oklahoma?
What happened in 1901 in Beaumont, Texas.
What is Oil that was discovered on a hill called Spindletop?
What is a canal or pipe that carries water to cities and farms?
Which river drops 1000 ft. in elevations as it winds through the Grand Canyon?
What is the Colorado River?
Two ways that people adapt to the hot climate in AZ.
What is wearing light colored clothing, drinking more water, using air conditioning?
Where crude oil goes after it is pumped from the ground.
What is a refinery?
drought
What is a period of little or no rain?
Name three landforms shaped by erosion.
What are canyons, mesas, plateaus, and buttes?
The desert that we live in.
What is the Sonoran Desert?
Underground layers of rock and sand that trap rainwater.
What is an aquifer?
crude oil
What is petroleum that bubbles up from the ground?
Which River forms the boundary between Texas and Mexico?
What is the Rio Grande River?
One cause of the Dust Bowl.
What is drought, high winds, and poor farming techniques?
Two items that are made from petrochemicals.
What is paint, clothing, sneakers, and pens?
desert
What are dry lands where little rain falls?
What do plateaus, mesas and buttes have in common?
What is a flat top?
Three of the most important natural resources found in the Southwest?
What are water, minerals, and oil?
A sign on the surface of the earth of an aquifer.
What is a spring?