Landforms
These are the three deserts that you will find in the Southwest.
What are the Painted Desert, the Chiuahuan Desert, and the Sonoran Desert?
The land that is located here is more likely to be hot and humid.
What is the Gulf Coast?
These were settlements made by Spanish settlers were Native Americans were forced to work and convert to Christianity.
What are Missions?
This resource is found in the southwest and is used to fuel cars and factories.
What is oil?
This is the capital of Texas.
What is Austin?
This is similar to a mesa with a steep hill of rock and a flat top, but it is smaller.
What is a butte?
This is what you call a sudden and heavy rain which is common in the desert.
What is a cloudburst?
This Native American tribes was known to be nomadic which meant they moved from place to place.
Who were the Apache?
This precious resource must be used wisely and requires the Southwest to cooperate with Mexico for use of the Rio Grande River.
What is water?
This capital of Arizona is located where two rivers meet.
What is Phoenix?
The southwest lies in a region that is drier because of mountains blocking the moist ocean air which is called this.
What is a rainshadow?
Most of the southwest region is covered by desert which means the air is very dry, or called this.
This pathway was where Native Americans were forced to travel from their homes to new land set aside for them by the government.
What was the Trail of Tears?
The southwest has enough rainfall in some parts for these to grow and they are an important resource.
What are forests?
Oklahoma City was settled during the the land rush in the 1800's and eventually was a part of this state.
What is Oklahoma?
The southwest has used these two man made features to help with their need for water in the desert.
What are reservoirs and aqueducts?
These ditches are caused by flowing water through the land over time.
What are arroyos?
What were Mexico raising taxes and passing laws that limited settlers.
These are two minerals that are found in the southwest.
What are:
uranium,
coal,
copper,
silver, gold, iron...
This capital city is located in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains of New Mexico.
What is Santa Fe?
Land that is drier and not fertile is most likely to be used for this, instead of farming.
What is ranching?
These areas are the only places where you may find cold and snowy weather in the Southwest.
What are the mountain areas?
These were given to settlers to encourage them to settle the Oklahoma territory- it included free land if they agreed to occupy the land.
What were land grants?
These types of workers come to the area temporarily to help with harvesting crops and driving cattle.
What are migrant workers?
This is the border between Mexico and Texas.
What is the Rio Grande?