SW History
What is four?
This huge canyon formed by the Colorado River.
What is the Grand Canyon?
The animal covered with a bony plate and burrows underground.
What are armadillos?
The national park with glistening white dunes, but is not made with sand...it's gypsum.
What is White Sands National Monument?
What country influenced food in the SW Region.
What is Mexico or Spain?
A synonym for missions.
What are churches?
This type of landform is located near the southeastern border of Texas and borders the Gulf of Mexico.
What are coastal plains?
Copper, gold, and silver are natural resources in the SW region used to make _______________.
What is jewelry?
The valley that contains many interesting rock formations.
What is Monument Valley?
This Native American group helped during WW2 with communication that the enemy couldn't decipher.
Who are the Navajo?
The Native American group that lived in the SW region and built houses using mud bricks.
Who are the Pueblo?
The mountains found in the SW region.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
This nocturnal desert animal is a member of the raccoon family and prefers living alone.
What is a ring-tailed cat?
The national park that has glistening, white dunes but are not sand...it's gypsum.
What is White Sand National Monument?
This type of food is often served at Christmas time in the SW Region...it is made with shredded beef and cornmeal served in a corn husk.
What are tamales?
The war that took place from 1846-1848 and the Americans defeated Mexico to take over more land.
What is the Mexican-American War?
Interesting rock formations found in the SW region.
What are buttes or mesas?
This animal lives in large herds and can jump over 20 feet high.
What are desert bighorn sheep?
The mission built in Texas where Spanish priests wanted to convert Native Americans to Christians.
What is the Alamo?
Texas is the leading state in ________________production.
What is cattle or livestock?
The first permanent European settlement in the Southwest Region.
What is Santa Fe, New Mexico?
The river that flows in throughout Texas and becomes a border between the USA and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
What is oil?
What are the Carlsbad Caverns?
Native Americans were forced to live on these in the SW region.
What are reservations?