Vocab
S.W. Geography
S.W. History
S.W. Resources
Dates
100
A sudden, heavy rain.
What is a cloudburst.
100
Which feature covers much of Arizona and New Mexico?
What is deserts.
100
What were the effects of the war between Texas and Mexico?
What is that Texas won the war, and it became an independent nation.
100
What was the name of a migrant worker discussed in lesson 3?
What is Cesar Chavez or Dolores Huerta.
100
Texans win their independence from Mexico?
What is 1836
200
A person who moves from place to place and does not have a permanent home.
What is a nomad.
200
A feature of the Southwest that is created by a natural resource, rain.
What is arroyos.
200
What year did the Cherokee people journey on the Trail of Tears?
What is 1838
200
What is a way in which conflicts over using the Rio Grande's water were resolved?
What is dams were built to control the river's flow.
200
The United States wins the Mexican-American War?
What is 1848
300
Religious settlements.
What is missions.
300
Why are most ranches and farms in the Southwest located in different places?
Because people in the Southwest use more arid land for ranching and more fertile land for farming.
300
What was an important effect of the Oklahoma land rush?
What is that Oklahoma became a state.
300
Why is irrigation important in the Southwest?
Irrigation is important in the Southwest because most of the region does not get enough rain to grow crops.
300
The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory?
What is 1803.
400
Someone who moves from place to place, doing one job after another.
What is a migrant worker.
400
What nonrenewable resources do the southwest have?
What is oil, natural gas, coal, copper, uranium, and water
400
What was the Trail of Tears? Why do you think it got that name?
What is the Trail of Tears was the journey that the Cherokee were forced to make from the Southwest to the Indian Territory. It got that name because the Cherokee were sad to leave their home and because many of them died along the journey.
400
What were used in order for ranchers to have an easier and quicker way to get their cattle to market?
What is trains
400
The first land rush held in Oklahoma?
What is 1889
500
How are a mesa and a butte alike? How are they different?
They both have steep sides and flat tops. A butte is smaller than a mesa.
500
Where in the Southwest would you see many buttes and mesas?
What is on the Colorado Plateau of Arizona and New Mexico
500
Why is it important for people to cooperate?
When people cooperate, there are fewer conflicts among them.
500
Where was oil first discovered?
What is Spindletop, Texas
500
The oil industry starts in the Southwest?
What is 1897