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100
The four states that make up the Southwest Region.
What are Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona?
100
This is the most famous landmark in the Southwest Region.
What is The Grand Canyon?
100
These makes up most of the Southwest Region.
What are deserts?
100
This valuable resource is nicknamed "black gold".
What is oil?
100
These are an important ingredient in Southwestern cooking.
What are tortillas?
200
These are 3 landforms found in the Southwest.
What are plains, canyons, and plateaus?
200
This is the river found at the bottom of The Grand Canyon.
What is the Colorado River?
200
Many places in the Southwest Region have up to 300 days of this each year.
What is sunshine?
200
These are very valuable resources that come from the deserts of the Southwest.
What are minerals? Gold, Iron, Copper, etc.
200
Many types of food in the Southwest Region taste like this because of the many kinds of hot chili peppers grown in this region.
What is spicy?
300
These are the two deserts that make up most of the Southwest Region.
What are the Sonoran Desert and the Chihuahuan Desert?
300
This forest is similar to a desert. It is filled with fossilized remains of pre-historic trees.
What is the Petrified Forest?
300
This occurs when there is little rain in an area for a long period of time.
What is a drought?
300
These are products produced in the Southwest Region.
What are crayons, medicines, and plastics?
300
These two types of culture are very popular in the Southwest Region.
What are Spanish and Mexican cultures?
400
This is one of America's greatest manufactured structures. It was built to control flooding on the Colorado River, and to store water.
What is the Hoover Dam?
400
This landmark is in charge of NASA's human spaceflight program.
What is the Johnson Space Center?
400
These are animals that hunt at night when it is cooler outside.
What are nocturnal animals?
400
Cattle raised in the Southwest Region provide this to all parts of the United States.
What is beef?
400
This reservation is home to the biggest American Indian tribe.
What is the Navajo Reservation?
500
This river forms part of the border between the United States and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
500
This landmark is said to have been discovered when a cowboy named Jim White saw what looked like a plume of smoke rising into the sky.
What is Carlsbad Caverns National Park?
500
This is the hottest large city in the Southwest Region.
What is Phoenix, Arizona?
500
This is a type of factory that separates crude oil into parts like gasoline and heating oil.
What is a refinery?
500
These are Native American tribes living in the Southwest Region.
What are Hopi, Zuni, Apache, and Navajo?