Monument Valley
Phoenix
Hoover Dam
New Mexico
Texas
100
This group of Native Americans considers Monument Valley home.
Who are the Navaho?
100
Phoenix is located in this state.
What is Arizona?
100
The Hoover Dam is located on the borders of these two states.
What is Arizona and Nevada?
100
A large cave.
What is a cavern?
100
The river that creates a border between Texas and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
200
An area of land that receives very little rain.
What is a desert?
200
Because of the summer temperatures, Phoenix has this nickname.
What is "America's Hottest City"?
200
A wall built across a river to stop the flow of water.
What is a dam?
200
According to local legend these helped Jim White discover Carlsbad Caverns.
What are bats?
200
A Spanish settlement in the U.S. for teaching Christianity.
What is a mission?
300
The name of the flat-topped hills in Monument Valley.
What are mesas?
300
This letter, tripled, changed the minds of people who didn't want to move there.
What is the letter "A"?
300
There is enough concrete to pave a two-lane road from where, to where?
What is from California to Florida?
300
Twenty-five stories high and a third of a mile wide, it can hold 14 football fields.
What is "The Big Room"?
300
This serves as a memorial to a group of people who fought for freedom for Texas.
What is the Alamo?
400
This means to change in order to survive.
What is "to adapt"?
400
A pipe or canal for carrying a large quantity of water.
What is an aqueduct?
400
The lake behind the dam.
What is Lake Mead?
400
Beneath this park lies more than 85 caves and caverns.
What is "Carlsbad Caverns National Park"?
400
San Antonio missions were built in the early 1700's when Texas was a colony of Spain. Texas later became part of this country.
What is Mexico?
500
Monument Valley is located on the border of these two states.
What is Arizona and Utah?
500
Besides aqueducts these two "A's" were also an incentive for moving to Phoenix.
What are automobiles and air conditioners.
500
Two main reasons the Hoover Dam was built.
What is to control flooding (from the Colorado River) and to store water (for farming and cities)?
500
These two things create unique formations in caverns.
What is limestone and water?
500
Texas won its independence from Mexico in 1836. The famous battle cry associated with this rebellion.
What is "Remember the Alamo!"?
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