States & Capitals
What is the capital of Texas?
What is Austin
List one major landmark in the Southwest region.
What is Big Bend National Park, Enchanted Rock, Cadillac Ranch, Palo Duro Canyon, Barton Springs Pool, Johnson Center Houston, Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Painted Desert, Meteor Crater, Hoover Dam, Petrified Forest, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, White Sands National Park, Shiprock, Rio Grande Gorge, Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, Black Mesa, Great Salt Plains State Park, Turner Falls, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, etc.
What is the climate like in the Southwest region?
What is hot, dry, arid/little rain, sunny, mild weather changes, droughts
List typical foods eaten in the Southwest region.
How do you spell the capital of Arizona?
what is P-h-o-e-n-i-x
What is the capital of New Mexico?
What is Santa Fe
List two products produced in the Southwest region.
What are Copper, Gold, Silver, coins, crayons, wire, plastic, medicine, gasoline, etc?
What is deserts, plateaus, plains, canyons.
other than native American people, what other culture makes up the people of the southwest region
What is Spanish-Americans
Nickname for one Southwest state
What is Texas: "The Lone Star State", Oklahoma: "The Sooner State", Arizona: "The Grand Canyon State", New Mexico: "The Land of Enchantment"
What is the Capital of Arizona and Oklahoma?
What is Phoenix and Oklahoma
List two natural resources of the Southwest region.
What is copper, uranium, oil, gold, silver, coal, etc.
A popular language spoken in the Southwest region.
What is Spanish
what is the most populated state in the southwest region
What is Texas
What are the abbreviations for all four states?
What is AZ, NM, TX, and OK
What is the most important natural resource from the Southwest region?
What is oil
What was built to control flooding on the Colorado river and store water?
List the four major Native American tribes of the Southwest region.
What is Navajo, Apache, Pueblo, Comanche
What is a primary source?
What is an original document or artifact that provides firsthand information about a topic or event (straight from the source).
Three states in the Southwest region were acquired from a country. What are the three states and the country?
What is Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas from Mexico
List one major landmark in each Southwest state.
What is Texas: (Big Bend National Park, Enchanted Rock, Cadillac Ranch, Palo Duro Canyon, Barton Springs Pool, Johnson Center Houston) Arizona: (Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Painted Desert, Meteor Crater, Hoover Dam, Petrified Forest) New Mexico: (Carlsbad Caverns National Park, White Sands National Park, Shiprock, Rio Grande Gorge), Oklahoma: (Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, Black Mesa, Great Salt Plains State Park, Turner Falls, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge)
About how many days of sunshine do some states have in the Southwest?
What is 300 days
Name something traditional from one Southwest Native American tribe.
What is hogans, wikiups, kivas, clay home architecture, deerskin clothing, farming, handwoven rugs, etc.
What is the nickname for "oil"
What is "black gold"