Geographical Features
A hill with a flat top
What is a Mesa?
Two of the most important Natural resources in the Southwest.
What is oil and water?
Two of the largest Native American tribes found in the Southwest?
What is Hopi and Navajo?
The wearing away of land by water, wind, or ice that formed the Grand Canyon.
What is erosion?
The thing Spanish conquistadors came looking
What is gold?
This natural process helped formed the Grand Canyon. It is also the slow wearing away of the land by water,wind,ice.
What is erosion?
Its common name is oil.
What is petroleum?
Great Native American farmers of the Southwest.
Who are the Hopi Indians?
The river that carved out the Grand Canyon
What is the Colorado River?
A deep, narrow valley with steep sides
What is a canyon?
The nickname for valuable oil that is drilled for in the Southwest.
What is black gold?
Colorado River starts in this mountain range
What are the Rocky Mountains?
People sent to spread Christianity
Who are missionaries?
A large hill with a flat top
What is plateau?
Natural resources of the Southwest.
What are oil, coal, uranium, copper and silver?
Southwestern state where the Grand Canyon is located
What is Arizona?
Spanish for cattle ranch
What is Rancho?
Mountain range that towers above parts of New Mexico and Arizona
What are the Rocky Mountains?
Two of our countries largest producers of oil are in the Southwest.
What are Texas and Oklahoma?
Famous Spanish conquistador who explored the southwest.
What is Francisco Coronoda?