Vocabularious 2
Water comes up from a ______, and a ________ carries the water to cities and farms.
Spring, Aqueduct
A period of little or no rain is called what?
A drought.
Which state is 'The Lone Star State'?
Texas
Native American people were moved from their homes to these, land set aside by the government for Native Americans.
Reservations
This is a diagram that shows when events took place.
Time Line
An oil well produces _____ ___, which is then seperated into parts at a ________.
Crude Oil, Refinery
Like a mesa, but smaller.
Butte
Which state is 'The Grand Canyon State'?
Arizona
This is our country's largest trading partner.
Mexico
A major battle was fought at this mission in San Antonio.
The Alamo
_______ Native Americans live in the Southwest. Their homes are made of ______.
Pueblo, Adobe
This landform is a hill with a flat top. It is smaller than a plateau.
Mesa
Which state is "The Sooner State"?
Oklahoma
What non-renewable resource is considered "black gold"?
Oil
In the 1500s, conquistadors from this country came in search of gold and silver.
Spain
After the Spanish settled in the Southwest, they set up ________, made up of a church, houses, workshops, and big farms called _______.
Missions, Ranchos
Canyon
Which state is 'The Land of Enchantment'?
New Mexico
What farming technique is a way to grow crops with only a small amount of rainwater?
Dry Farming
Which Southwestern state was once its own country?
Texas
________ is another word for cowboy. The invention of ______ _____ helped these cowboys fence in large areas with little wood.
Vaquero, Barbed Wire
Beaumont, or Spindletop
Which state is home to the Hopi Native Americans?
How has the saguaro cactus adapted to living in the Southwest?
After rainfall, the cactus stores water in its trunk.
This woman was one of the few to travel the Chisholm Trail, nearly 1,000 miles of hard, dangerous work.
Lizzie Johnson Williams