Cattle Drives/Railroads
Oil/Dust Bowl
Fort Worth
100

True or False:

Railroads made goods get to markets slower.

False

100

True or False:

An effect of the Dust Bowl is people moved into Texas.

False

100
How did people modify the environment in Fort Worth?

Cut down trees to build homes

200

Which of the following was NOT transported on railroads?

A. Cows

B. Crops

C. Oil

D. Wood

C. Oil

200

Supply and demand means that the more popular (demanded) a good is, the more profits go ______.

Up

200

What does the word "industry" mean AND what is one industry in Fort Worth?

Business


Cattle, railroads, oil, airplanes

300

Barbed wire ended which of the following?

A. The Civil War

B. The open range/cattle drives

C. Oil

D. Farming

B. The open range/cattle drives

300

The discovery of oil at Spindletop led a population increase in which region of Texas?

Coastal Plains

300

Which region of Texas is Fort Worth in? (You will have to flip between your Fort Worth notes and Map of Texas Regions.)

Central Plains

400
Who were the TWO creators of the Goodnight-Loving Trail?
Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving
400

Which letter shows the HIGHEST population density?

B

400

Why was Fort Worth founded in 1849?

A. A place for cowboys to rest on cattle drives

B. To build airplanes

C. To find oil

D. A military outpost

D. A military outpost

500

What are the 4 states/territories that the Goodnight-Loving Trail ran through?

Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming

500

Name two causes of the Dust Bowl.

1. Over-farming of wheat

2. High temperatures

3. Low rainfall

500

Based on your Fort Worth notes, what can be plugged in to help define "modified"?

A. Keep the same

B. Changed

C. Burned down

D. Increased

B. Changed