Man Made Causes
True or False? The dust Bowl caused the Great Depression?
False. It did not cause the Great Depression, yet they did impact each other.
_____________ of 1930 was a natural cause of the Dust Bowl.
What is drought?
What fraction of the Great Plains suffered from severe dust storms during the Dust Bowl?
What is one-third?
Not enough rain
What is a drought?
The top layer of soil is called...
What is topsoil?
This crop was being over planted by the farmers.
What is dry wheat?
During the 1920's the central U.S. had more ______ than usual and agriculture boomed.
What is rain?
Which places were mostly effected by the Dust Bowl?
Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico.
Or The Great Plains.
A person who comes to liver permanently in another country.
What is an immigrant?
"In all _______________ people left the Great Plains, victims of the combined action of severe drought and poor soil conservation practices."
What is 400,000?
Who moved to the Great Plains seeking to start their own successful farms?
Who are new immigrants?
"Those _______ picked up all the dry soil and sent it flying".
What is "winds"?
What would happen to people after their farms were destroyed?
They were forced to leave without money or a place to go.
What is deplete? As in depleted soil.
This was one of the worst dust storms in American History.
What was Black Sunday?
Farmers did not practice environmentally friendly farming techniques. What two mistakes did the farmers make?
1. They plowed under the natural prairie grasses.
2. They did not rotate the crops.
True or False: As long as the rain kept falling the agriculture mistakes the farmers were making would not cause the Dust Bowl.
True. It was the drought along with the farming practices and the wind that caused the Dust Bowl.
1930 - 1940
How long did the Dust Bowl last?
The science or practice of farming
What is agriculture?
This "Act" of 1862 contributed indirectly to the Dust Bowl.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
Why was there overproduction of cash crops?
Farmers needed to make more money due to the Great Depression that was going on simultaneously.
True or False: A drought is only something that happened in the past and could not happen today!
False: We currently experience droughts
What did people do so they could breathe?
People would block their windows and also wear masks or handkerchiefs over their faces to not breathe in the dust.
Synonym for Dust Bowl
What is "Black Blizzard"?
Explain the process in which the dust was being blown around.
The topsoil was loose and because of the dryness and so the wind picked it up and blew it all around.