Land & Water
The largest canyon in the US.
What is the Grand Canyon?
Most of the Southwest region is this.
What are deserts?
This "black gold" is the most important resource in the southwest.
What is oil?
This landform is 217 miles long, 1 mile deep and 18 miles wide.
What is The Grand Canyon?
This important ingredient in southwest cooking can be used as a wrapper or bread.
What are tortillas?
This is the border between Texas and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande River?
These two southwest states can grow crops.
What are Oklahoma and Texas?
Ranches in the southwest raise these.
What are beef cattle and sheep?
This is the state where I can find the Grand Canyon.
What is Arizona?
These spicy vegetables are used in many dishes.
What are red and green chili peppers?
This structure was built to control flooding and to store water along the Colorado River.
What is The Hoover Dam?
This is the US hottest large city.
What is Phoenix, AZ?
Gold, iron, copper, silver are these.
What are valuable minerals found in the southwest?
This national park has fossilized remains of prehistoric trees.
What is Petrified Forest National Park?
Tamales, a popular southwest food, with shredded beef, chilis and spices are wrapped in these.
What are corn husks?
This river runs through the driest part of the US.
What is the Colorado River?
The southwest has this many days of sunshine per year.
What is more than 300?
These are used to move water from lakes and rivers to towns and cities.
What are aqueducts?
This large cave is a national park in NM.
What is Carlsbad Caverns?
This is why many southwest places are Spanish speaking.
What is Spain sent priests to build churches and missions?
These two deserts make up much of the land in the southwest US.
What are the Chihuahuan Desert and the Sonoran Desert?
This rodent does not need to drink water.
What is a pocket mouse?
Where does much of the electricity in the southwest come from?
What are turbines?
This is where all NASA astronauts live and train.
What is Johnson Space Center?
These are three of the many tribes in the southwest region.
What are the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni and Appache?