Capitals
This is how many states there are in the Southwest region.
What is four states?
This is the largest desert in North America, and it is approximately 800 miles long and 250 miles wide.
What is the Chihuahuan Desert?
Much of the Southwest is this, so it has a hot, dry climate with very little rain.
What is desert?
These three minerals are found in the Colorado River basin.
What are gold, iron, and copper?
This is the most famous landmark in the Southwest. It is 217 miles long and was formed by the Colorado River.
What is the Grand Canyon?
This is the capital of Texas.
What is Austin?
This desert covers most of the southern half of Arizona and New Mexico.
What is the Sonoran Desert?
When it doesn't rain for a long time, this can occur. It causes serious problems because it hurts crops.
What is a drought?
This mineral is used mostly in wire or coins, and Arizona produces a lot of it!
What is copper?
What is the Petrified Forest?
This is the capital of Oklahoma.
What is Oklahoma City?
The fertile soil of this spreads from the coast of Texas along the Gulf of Mexico into central Oklahoma.
What is the Central Plains?
This is America's hottest large city, and during the summer, temperatures can soar to 115 degrees Fahrenheit.
What is Phoenix, Arizona?
These four fuels are found in the Southwest region.
What are uranium, coal, natural gas, and oil?
This center is in charge of NASA's human spaceflight program, and it trains astronauts bound for the International Space Station.
What is the Johnson Space Center?
This is the capital of Arizona.
What is Phoenix?
This river is 1,470 miles long and travels south and west through some of the driest parts of the country.
What is the Colorado River?
This bighorn sheet has adapted to the desert because it has this, which are good for walking on rough terrain.
What are big feet?
This is a kind of factory that separates crude oil into parts like gasoline and heating oil.
What is a refinery?
Hundreds of thousands of bats sleep here during the day, and then at night they leave in a giant cloud to hunt for food.
What is Carlsbad Caverns National Park?
This is the capital of New Mexico.
What is Santa Fe?
This is one of America's greatest manufactured structures. It was built to control flooding on the Colorado River and to store water.
What is the Hoover Dam?
Most desert animals are this, which means they hunt at night when it is cooler.
These are used in the Southwest to move water from lakes and rivers to farms and cities.
What are aqueducts?
What are the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, and Apache?