Land & Water
Climate
The Southwest's Past
The Growth of the Southwest
Life in a Dry Land
100
Scientists think this gradual wearing away of soil and rock caused the formation of the Grand Canyon.
What is erosion?
100
Some parts of the region such as Arizona and New Mexico have a climate that is known as very dry or this.
What is arid?
100
This Spanish word for village also became the name for some of the Southwest's Native American groups.
What is Pueblo?
100
This person became president of the Republic of Texas after it became independent from Mexico.
Who is Sam Houston?
100
This is a lake where water is stored.
What is a reservoir?
200
This river marks the southern border of over half of the Southwest region.
What is the Rio Grande?
200
More tornadoes occur in this state than in any other state in the country.
What is Texas?
200
This word means the headquarters of missionaries.
What is mission?
200
In 1845, Texas was added to or this to the United States.
What is annex?
300
This Southwest state is the leading producer of copper in the United States.
What is Arizona?
300
Temperature tends to do this as elevation increases.
What is decrease?
300
This person set up three missions in what is now Arizona in order to teach the Native Americans the Christian religion.
Who is Eusebio Kino?
300
The difficult journey of the 1860s by this group of people is called "The Long Walk".
Who are the Navajo?
300
These appliances have been designed to use less water.
What are showers, toilets, and washing machines?
400
This landform is a World Heritage site in the Southwest.
What is the Grand Canyon?
400
This animal, once almost extinct, grazes on the grasslands of the Southwest.
What is the American bison?
400
Spanish explorers were sent to the Southwest primarily to look for this.
What are cities of gold?
400
Land around Spindletop in Texas went from $150 to $50,000 for one lot in 1901 for this reason.
What is oil was discovered at Spindletop?
400
This is one thing that families have stopped doing outside to save water.
What is washing their cars?
500
Texas produces more oil and this than other state in the country.
What is natural gas?
500
This animal is found in the skies above the grasslands of the Southwest.
What is an eagle?
500
Diez y Seis de Septiembre and this are two holidays many people in the Southwest celebrate.
What is Cinco de Mayo?
500
This is the largest industry in New Mexico today.
What is tourism?
500
City guidelines in the Southwest recommend that people water their yards less often and water only at these two times of the day.
What are only at night and early morning?
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