This is a person who moves around from place to place, usually following a food source.
What is a nomad?
100
This is a good made to be sold.
What is a commercial good?
100
This is the capital of Oklahoma
What is Oklahoma City?
100
Phoenix is the capital of this state.
What is Arizona?
200
This is a hill found in the Southwest with a flat top and steep sides.
What is a mesa?
200
This is land offered for free by the government to people wanting to settle in Oklahoma.
What is a land grant?
200
Ranching and farming work was often done by ____________ in the Southwest due to the arid climate and the need for temporary workers.
What are migrant workers?
200
Austin is the capital of this state.
What is Texas?
200
This is the capital of New Mexico.
What is Santa Fe?
300
Describe the climate of the Southwest and describe why it is the way it is.
The Southwest has a mostly arid, or dry, climate. It lies in the rain shadow, or the dry side of the mountains.
300
Pueblo Indians of the Southwest made their homes from bricks made of ________________.
What is adobe?
300
The United States and Mexico came up with this resolution to use the water from the Rio Grande river responsibly.
The U.S. agreed to let Mexico use a certain amount of water each month, and in return Mexico agreed to limit the use of water during times of drought.
300
This contributes to the diverse population of the Southwest.
People from many cultures live in the Southwest, such as European Americans, African Americans, American Indians, Hispanics, and Vietnamese immigrants.
300
This is a place where people use instruments, such as telescopes, for studying space.
What is an observatory?
400
Farmers in the Southwest use ______________ to bring water to dry places.
What is irrigation?
400
List two effects caused by Spain invading the Southwest in the 1500's.
1) Spain set up missions and forced the American Indians to follow their religion and rules.
2) American Indians taught the Spanish how to use adobe.
400
This word means "dry".
What is arid?
400
This is a factory that turns crude oil into products, including gasoline.
What is a refinery?
400
People in the Southwest use ______________, a landscaping method that conserves water by planting desert plants rather than grass.
What is xeriscape?
500
This is a human made lake?
What is a reservoir?
500
Name one Southwest state and describe how it became a state.
Texas: fought for independence from Mexico, became its own country, then the U.S. fought Texas and won making it a state
Oklahoma: the U.S. offered land grants to settlers
Arizona and New Mexico: won during the Mexican-American War
500
________________ was the first Southwest state to begin producing commercial oil.
What is Oklahoma?
500
This is land set aside for American Indians
What is a reservation?
500
This is how Arizona and New Mexico became two of the fastest-growing states.
In the early 1900's artists began painting and photographing them. People saw the beauty and began moving there. When more modern conveniences, like railroads and air conditioning, arrived, even more people moved there.