States & Capitals
The largest state in the Southwest.
What is Texas?
Native Americans who live in parts of New Mexico and Arizona.
Who are Navajo.
Black Gold.
What is oil.
The climate in most of the Southwest.
What is hot and dry.
These makes up most of the Southwest Region.
What are deserts?
The capital of New Mexico.
What is Santa Fe.
These Spaniards came and took over the Southwest and named all the land "New Mexico".
Who are conquistadors.
Oklahoma and parts of Texas have this because their climate is similar to the Midwest.
What is good soil.
The landmark formed by the Colorado river, the deepest in the United States.
What is the Grand Canyon.
Oil, or petroleum, is used for many things. Name two.
What is grease for tools, burned for heat, gasoline, fuel for trains/planes, paint.
The capital of this state is Phoenix.
What is Arizona.
Just like the Cherokee walked in the Trail of Tears, the Navajo were forced from their land in this 300 mile walk.
What is the Long Walk.
Tourism is also a resource to the Southwest. This giant landmark is one reason people still visit Arizona today.
What is the Grand Canyon.
These are 2 landforms found in the Southwest.
What are plains, canyons, and plateaus?
This is what happened to the Grand Canyon after millions of years of wind, sun and water rushing through.
What is erosion.
Kansas is to Kansas City as Oklahoma is to...
What is Oklahoma City.
Cattle drives happened when many of these men road their horses and moved the cattle to new pastures.
What are cowboys.
mohair
Giant Saguaro cactus grow in this landform of the Southwest.
What is desert.
Many places in the Southwest Region have up to 300 days of this each year.
sunshine
Name all four states and their capitals.
What is Phoenix, Arizona; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Austin, Texas; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Cattle were one main reason people moved Southwest. Another reason was oil. What was it called when many areas of Oklahoma filled with people very quickly?
What are Boom Towns.
Oil is the main resource of the Southwest. Another name for oil is ______ and BONUS: it is made from what?
What is petroleum, dead plants.
Near the Gulf of Mexico, the climate in Texas changes from very dry to warm and rainy. This land form is called what?
What is Coastal Plain.
This part of the Southwest receives enough rain to grow crops. Eastern or Western?