States
How many states are in the Southwest region?
What is 4?
What does the word arid mean?
What is very dry?
What word describes most of the land in Texas and Oklahoma?
What is flat? (Plains)
Arizona is the country's leading producer of what natural resource?
What is copper?
Which state once was part of Mexico?
What is Texas?
What natural disaster occurs in the Southwest region?
What are tornadoes?
What does the land in Arizona and New Mexico have a lot of?
What are plateaus? (or mountains)
What is a major natural resource in Texas? (uncovered in the 1900s)
What is oil?
Which state is located above Texas?
What is Oklahoma?
Texas and Oklahoma experiences more ____ than Arizona and New Mexico in their climate.
What is precipitation?
What are two major rivers in the Southwest region?
What are the Colorado River and Rio Grande?
True or false: the Southwest region has a large amount of water available for people.
What is false?
Houston is a metropolitan area in which state?
What is Texas?
What is one activity that you may do in Arizona?
Answers will vary.
Explain the process of erosion.
What is wearing away soil and rock?
What are the two main sources of water for people to use?
What is groundwater and surface water?
Which state are the cities of Phoenix and Flagstaff in?
What is Arizona?
Why is the climate in Phoenix and Flagstaff so different?
What is elevation?
What can erosion be caused by?
What is rainwater, rivers, wind?
(answers will vary)
What is one way that a family may save water in the Southwest region?
What is water your yard less, take shorter showers..?
(answers will vary)