Causes
Give two natural causes of the Dust Bowl.
What is Wind Erosion, Extended Drought, or Unusually High Temperatures?
How many acres of land were destroyed in the dust Bowl?
A.) 90 million B.) 100 million
C.) 110 million D.) 120 million
What is
B.) 100 million
True or False; You can tell where a dust storm came from by the color of the dust.
What is true?
True or False; Some farmers followed the old folklore of killing snakes and hanging them belly-up on fences to cause it to rain.
What is true?
This natural occurrence most influenced the spread of dust.
What is wind?
Give one man-made cause of the Dust Bowl.
What is Extensive farming or Deep plowing of the soil?
How many people were being displaced from the dust bowl?
A.) 2 million B.) 2.5 million
C.) 3 million D.) 3.5 million
What is
B.) 2.5 million
Many families' ____ during the dust bowl.
Left or Stayed
What is stayed?
April 14, 1935
What is Black Sunday?
Which president delayed a government response to the Dust Bowl?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The Dust Bowl was unavoidable.
True or False
What is false?
What were some direct effects of The Dust Bowl?
What is crops failed to grow, livestock died of starvation and thirst, and thousands of farm families lost their farms and faced severe poverty?
(other answers may count)
___ million tons of soil left Kansas, Texas, and Oklahoma and was deposited in eastern states.
What is 350?
This year saw the worst health crises of the Dust Bowl.
What is 1935?
These five states were covered by the Dust Bowl.
What is Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas?
What was the biggest step towards the Dust Bowl?
The eradication of Indigenous Tribes and Bison Herds.
Did the dust bowl affect any other countries?
If yes which one?
Yes, what is Canada?
Before the European invasion, grasslands covered __% of the U.S. and Canada.
What is around 21%?
More than ____ Americans were left homeless
What is 500,000?
The government finally reacted to the Dust Bowl after this event.
What is the May 1934 dust storm?
(Dust blew into D.C.)
This famous author believed in the "radical" idea that the American agriculture industry was a main factor in causing the Dust Bowl.
Who is John Steinback?
How did the view of nature change after the Dust Bowl in the sense of the relationship between agriculture and people?
This famous American novel focuses on an impoverished family living through the Great Depression.
What is "Grapes of Wrath"?
This was the primary medical issue associated with the Dust Bowl.
What is dust pneumonia?
This mineral in the dust was harmful to the human body.
What is silica?