Vocabulary
Changing in order to survive
What is adapting?
City where government is located
What is a capital?
Hundred of bats call this place home.
What is Carlsbad Caverns?
One of the 3 "A's" to help Phoenix adapt to the hot weather.
What are air conditioners?
See slide 16
What is Texas?
Area receiving less than 10 inches of rain per year
What is a desert?
Boundary separating 2 places
A memorial to Texas Freedom Fighters.
A deep, narrow valley that the Colorado River runs through.
What is the Grand Canyon?
See slide 17
What is Oklahoma?
A large cave system
What is a cavern?
Something built on top of a river to stop the flow of water
What is a dam?
Home to the Navajo Native American tribe
The place where state legislatures work
What is a state capital?
See slide 18
What is New Mexico?
A pipe or canal that carries water over a long distance
What is an aqueduct?
A flat topped hill
What is a mesa?
The Rio Grande separates these 2 cities.
What is Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, TX?
Built on the Colorado River to stop water from flowing
What is the Hoover Dam?
See slide 19
What is Arizona?
A Spanish settlement built to teach Christianity
What is a mission?
A fight against a government
What is a rebellion?
The reason that many Mexicans moved close to the border of Mexico and Texas.
What is working in factories?
The 3 branches of government
What are the legislative, executive and judicial branches?
What is Texas?