Natural Resources
The nickname given to oil.
What is Black Gold?
This is a state that has a mixture of three cultures: Latina, Native American and Anglo
What is New Mexico?
Their names can be remembered using the acronym H.O.M.E.S.
What are the Great Lakes?
These explorers were sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the land west of the Rocky Mountains
Who were Lewis and Clark?
The year both Alaska and Hawaii became U.S. states.
What is 1959?
The Great Plain have perfect conditions for growing it because the weather is so dry.
Where is wheat grown?
This city had the first Chinatown in the U.S. because so many Chinese immigrants arrived in the 1800s.
What is San Francisco?
This mountain range is considered the eastern boundary of the West today, but it once considered the western boundary for the West.
What are the Rockies?
They built a sophisticated society and multi-story dwellings in New Mexico and other parts of the Southwest and West.
Who were the Anasazi?
This is the capital of Texas.
What is Austin?
This natural resource of the Midwest can be used to make steel.
What is iron ore?
This is a form of entertainment in the southwest that comes from the Southwest's history of raising and herding beef cattle.
What is the Rodeo?
This body of water borders Southwest on the south.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
Texas lost this important battle for independence, but still gained their independence a month later.
What was the Battle at the Alamo>
This city in the West is the capital of the entertainment industry.
What is Los Angeles?
It is not only a natural resource of the Southwest, but is also the boundary between Mexico and Texas.
What is the Rio Grande?
This state has more Native Americans in this state than any other.
What is Oklahoma?
These icicle shaped forms develop in caves from years of mineral deposits.
What are stalactites?
He was named after a small bear cub found clinging to a tree after a forest fire.
Smokey the Bear
These are three kinds of extreme weather in the midwest.
This natural resource of the northwest was used to build homes for early settlers.
What is timber? (or forests)
This city in Texas has more Spanish culture than any other Texan city.
What is San Antonio?
This river was once the western boundary of the West.
What is the Mississippi River?
It is the oldest Pueblo in New Mexico where they still as they did centuries ago.
What is the Taos Pueblo?
These are four uses of corn.
What is food for people, food for livestock, used to make paint and fuel.