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Landforms
Southwest States
Maps
Vocabulary
General SW Trivia
100
Canyons, mesas and buttes are all landforms formed by this process.
What is erosion?
100
The largest of the Southwest States.
What is Texas?
100
The lines on a map that help you find "addresses".
What is latitude and longitude?
100
The pipe that carries water from a lake to a town.
What is an aqueduct?
100
The river that drops more than 1,000 feet in elevation.
What is the Colorado River?
200
A large hill with a flat top.
What is a plateau?
200
The only SW state that is 2 words.
What is New Mexico?
200
Another name for latitude lines.
What is parallels?
200
A period of time where little or no rainfall occurs.
What is a drought?
200
The major plateau found in the Southwest.
What is the Colorado Plateau?
300
A medium sized hill with a flat top.
What is a mesa?
300
The capital of Texas.
What is Austin?
300
Longitude lines run these 2 directions.
What is north and south?
300
A steep, narrow valley that is often carved by a flowing river.
What is a canyon?
300
One of the 3 deserts located in the SW.
What is the Sonoran Desert, the Painted Desert, or the Chihuahuan Desert?
400
The smallest hill with a flat top.
What is a butte?
400
The capital of Oklahoma.
What is Oklahoma City?
400
Latitude lines run these 2 directions.
What is east and west?
400
A cactus stores water in its trunk to survive in this environment.
What is the desert?
400
Products like paint and ink that are made from petroleum.
What are petrochemicals?
500
A deep, narrow valley with steep sides.
What is canyon?
500
Spell the capital of Arizona.
What is P - H - O - E - N - I -X?
500
You start measuring the lines of longitude here.
What is the prime meridian?
500
Gasoline and heating oil are two products made frome this resource.
What is crude oil?
500
Crude oil is separated into its useful parts in this type of factory.
What is a refinery?