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States and Capitals
Vocabularly I
Vocabulary II
Southwest History
Southwest Today
100
This is the capital of Arizona.
What is Phoenix?
100
This is mud brick.
What is adobe?
100
This is the Spanish word for village.
What is pueblo?
100
This river wore away rock and helped carve the Grand Canyon.
What is the Colorado River?
100
This culture has the most influence in the Southwest today.
What is Spanish?
200
This is the capital of the Longhorn state.
What is Austin (Texas)?
200
This is a factory that separates oil into different chemicals.
What is a refinery?
200
This is a term for a climate that is dry, but not a desert.
What is arid?
200
This is way that the saguaro cactus helps desert wildlife.
What is providing shelter for desert animals?
200
This invention made the heat of the Southwest more bearable for homes and businesses.
What is air conditioning?
300
This is the capital of New Mexico.
What is Santa Fe?
300
This is a Spanish cowboy
What is a vaquero?
300
This is the land given to settlers by the U.S. government.
What is a homestead?
300
This is a nonrenewable resource discovered in 1901 in the Southwest.
What is oil?
300
This farming technique changed some of Arizona's dry land into rich farmland.
What is irrigation?
400
This is the capital of the Sooner state. Name the capital and the state.
What is Oklahoma City, Oklahoma?
400
This is the fat from cattle that can be used to make candles and soap.
What is tallow?
400
This is a Navajo house built with poles and covered with soil and bark.
What is a hogan?
400
This is a way that the Spanish missions helped the Native Americans.
What is they offered protection from their enemies?
400
This man's meat-packing plant helps the Southwest Cattle industry.
Who is Philip Armour?
500
The Grand Canyon is located in this state.
What is Arizona?
500
A governor who rules a country or province.
What is a viceroy?
500
This a pipe or ditch that carries water across a long distance.
What is an aqueduct?
500
This sad period in history was when the Navajo were forced to walk 300 miles without safe water, food, clothing or shelter and many died as a result.
What is "The Long Walk"?
500
This is one of the world's largest radio observatories.
What is the Very Large Array?