Land and Water
These are the four states that make up the Southwest.
What are Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona?
This is the climate of the southwest.
What is a hot, dry, climate with little rain?
This type of mineral(s) impacted the way Native Americans lived.
What are precious metals. Iron, gold, copper, and silver.
This is considered to be the most famous landmark in the southwest.
What is the Grand Canyon?
Parts of the southwest belonged to this country.
What is Mexico?
The largest desert in North America
What is the Chihuahuan desert?
These two states do get some rain to water crops, but it must be used carefully.
What are Texas and Oklahoma?
This mineral has been nicknamed "black gold"
What is oil?
This is forest has fossilized remains of prehistoric trees.
What is the Petrified Forest?
These people were sent here by Spain to build churches and missions.
What are priests?
This high, flat landform that rises steeply from the land around it, and it covers much of northern New Mexico and Arizona.
What is the Colorado Plateau?
The Navajo were able to grow this crop and raise this type of livestock with little rainfall.
What are sheep and corn?
These are used to move water from lakes and rivers to farms and cities.
What are Aqueducts.
This serves a center for astronauts to train.
What is the Johnson Space Center?
More of these people live in the Southwest than in any other region of the United States.
What are Native Americans?
This man made structure was built to control flooding on the Colorado River and to store water.
What is the Hoover Dam?
The hottest large city in America.
What is Phoenix, Arizona?
The Southwest regions leads all states in this.
What is the raising of beef cattle and sheep?
This animal lives in vast numbers within Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
What are bats?
When Texas left this country, a war was started.
What is Mexico?
This river traves southwest through the driest parts of the country and empties into the Gulf of Mexico, while this river creates a natural border with Mexico
What are the Colorado River and Rio Grande River
This is what most animals in the desert are.
What is nocturnal?
This is created by the Colorado river rushing through turbines.
What is electricity.
This created created the Grand Canyon.
This food is wrapped in a cornhusk and steamed.
What is a tamal?