Land and Water
The Southwest Region of the United States includes New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and this state.
What is Oklahoma?
This occurs when there is little to no rain for a long period of time.
What is a drought?
Many foods from the SW region are considered this due to chili peppers being a common food item.
What is spicy?
A famous forest found in the SW region that is made up of fossilized trees.
What is the Petrified Forest?
Known also as "black gold," this is the most important natural resource found in the SW region.
What is oil?
The country on the other side of the border of the United States Southwest Region.
What is Mexico?
Animals in the SW region, like the pocket mouse, have had to severely adapt to the region especially to the lack of this resource.
What is water?
Before the United States and Mexico, this country owned this region.
What is Spain?
This river is located at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
What is the Colorado River?
Aside from gold and silver, this metal is one of the more commonly found in the SW region and used in coins, wire, jewelry, tolls, and many other things.
What is copper?
The SW region is largely made up of the Sonoran Desert and this other desert.
What is the Chihuahuan Desert?
This is the hottest city not just in the SW region, but in the entire United States.
What is Phoenix (,Arizona)?
Along with peppers, this is also a staple in SW region foods, either holding other food or cut up and used.
What are tortillas?
These creatures were mistaken to be a large plume of smoke by cowboy Jim White as they left a famous cavern in New Mexico.
What are bats?
These large pipes/canals carry water from its source to farms and other places far away that do not have easy access to a water source.
What is an aqueduct?
Canyons are a regular scenic attraction in the SW region, with this canyon being the largest and most famous.
What is the Grand Canyon?
The SW region is primarily made up of deserts due to the its climate being this.
What is hot and/or dry?
This is the largest Native American Reservation tribe not just in the SW region, but also the United States as a whole.
Who are the Navajo?
Spacewalk simulation, full-scale space equipment training, and operating human space flight missions to the International Space Station take place at this space center.
What is Johnson Space Center?
These two animals are the most commonly raised on the SW region for food, some of which is transported all over the world.
What are cattle/cows and sheep?
This river creates a large portion of the southern border between Texas and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande River?
Many places in the SW region have this many days of sunshine a year.
What is 300?
The United States gained most of the SW region from this country after they defeated them in a war between the two countries.
What is Mexico?
This famous cave structure contains many incredible cave-dwelling creatures, unique stalagmites and stalactites such as the Hall of Giants, and the beautiful Green Lake Room.
What is Carlsbad Caverns?
This facility is used to separate crude oil into useful products like gasoline and heating oils.
What is a refinery?