Vocabulary
drought
What is a period of little or no rain?
Name three landforms shaped by erosion.
What are canyons, mesas, plateaus, and buttes?
Name the desert that we live in.
What is the Sonoran Desert?
Another name for latitude.
What are parallels?
Underground layers of rock and sand that trap rainwater.
What is an aquifer?
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?
Name two ways that people adapt to the hot climate in AZ.
What is wearing light colored clothing, drinking more water, using air conditioning?
Where do you start measuring lines of longitude?
What is the Prime Meridian?
Where does crude oil go after it is pumped from the ground?
Crude oil is taken to a refinery where it is separated into parts.
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?
Name the three causes of the Dust Bowl.
What are drought, high winds, and poor farming techniques?
Another name for lines of longitude?
Name 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?
What are three of the most important natural resources found in the Southwest?
What are water, minerals, and oil?
Which measure comes first in a global address?
What is latitude?
What is a sign on the surface of the earth of an aquifer?
A spring.
canyon
What is a deep, narrow valley with steep sides?
What do the natural features of our country teach us?
What are lessons about Geography and History?
Name two SW states that are the largest producers of oil in the U.S.
What are Texas and Oklahoma?
Where do you start measuring lines of latitude?
What is the equator?
What happened in 1901 in Beaumont, Texas?
Oil was discovered on a hill called Spindletop.