Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Review Facts
Review Facts
100
A large area of high, flat land.
What is plateau
100
The river that formed the deep valley in the Grand Canyon.
What is Colorado
100
Wide roads that cross country and connect large cities. They connect to or more states.
What is interstate highways.
100
What are two different kinds of landforms in the Southwest that were formed by erosion?
What is The Grand Canyon, Mesas
100
What is the name of the river that forms the boundary between Texas and Mexico?
What is Rio Grande
200
The region west of the Rockies that is smaller mountain ranges and plateaus.
What is Colorado Plateau
200
This river forms the border between Texas and Mexico.
What is Rio Grande
200
What are two things that are also shown on road maps besides roads.
What is location of campgrounds, parks, forests, monuments, and museums.
200
What is the name of the mountain range that runs through part of the Southwest?
What is Rocky Mountains
200
What is the name of the Southwest state in which the Painted Desert is located?
What is Arizona
300
A deep, narrow valley with steep sides.
What is canyon
300
A special landform that is small, flat-topped hills.
What is Mesas
300
A lake that is used to store water.
What is reservoir
300
What unusual landform in the Southwest is shaped like a flat tabletop?
What is mesas
300
Name 2 plants and describe how each has developed special ways of surviving in the desert.
What is cactuses store water in their large stems, mesquites have roots that reach deep below the earth's surface.
400
The biggest canyon that runs more than 200 miles through northern Arizona.
What is Grand Canyon
400
In northern Arizona there is a world's most unusual land feature.
What is Painted Desert
400
A large pipe or canal that carries the water to the place it is needed.
What is aqueduct.
400
How is farming made possible in the dry land of the Southwest?
What is irrigation.
400
What valuable natural resource found in Texas and Oklahoma is sometimes called "black gold?
What is petroleum
500
A slow wearing away of soil and rock by water, wind, or ice.
What is erosion
500
A map that shows travelers how to get from one place to another.
What is road map
500
One of the Southwest's largest aqueducts carries water from the Colorado River to ____________.
What is Phoenix, Arizona.
500
Name three different natural resources found in the Southwest, and tell how they are useful.
What is Petroleum, natural gas, and coal are sources of fuel. Copper is used to make pennies and pipes.
500
What city in the desert depends on a huge aqeduct carrying water from the Colorado River?
What is Phoenix, Arizona
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