States & Capitals
Landmarks, Products & Natural Resources
Climate, Landforms, and Water
Culture
misc.
100

What is the capital of Texas?

What is Austin

100

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.





  


100

What is the climate like in the Southwest region?

What is hot, dry, arid/little rain, sunny, mild weather changes, droughts

100

List typical foods eaten in the Southwest region.

What is spicy food, tamales, tacos, corn, chilli peppers, nachos, etc
100

How do you spell the capital of Arizona?

what is P-h-o-e-n-i-x 

200

What is the capital of New Mexico?

What is Santa Fe

200

List two products produced in the Southwest region.

What are Copper, Gold, Silver, coins, crayons, wire, plastic, medicine, gasoline, etc? 

200
Describe the landforms of the Southwest.

What is deserts, plateaus, plains, canyons. 

200

other than native American people,  what other culture makes up the people of the southwest region

What is Spanish-Americans 

200

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"

300

What is the Capital of Arizona and Oklahoma?

What is Phoenix and Oklahoma

300

List two natural resources of the Southwest region.

What is copper, uranium, oil, gold, silver, coal, etc. 

300
What is one major river in the Southwest?
What is the Colorado River, Rio Grande River, etc? 
300

A popular language spoken in the Southwest region.

What is Spanish

300

what is the most populated state in the southwest region

What is Texas 

400

What are the abbreviations for all four states?

What is AZ, NM, TX, and OK

400

What is the most important natural resource from the Southwest region?

What is oil

400

What was built to control flooding on the Colorado river and store water?

What is the Hoover Dam
400

What is one major Native American tribe of the Southwest region.

What is Pueblo

400

What does Pueblo mean?

What is village

500

Three states in the Southwest region were acquired from a country. What country? 

Mexico

500

List three major landmarks in the Southwest region.

What is Texas: (Gulf of Mexico, Big Bend National Park, Enchanted Rock, Cadillac Ranch, Palo Duro Canyon, Barton Springs Pool, Johnson Center Houston) Arizona: (Grand Canyon, Sonoran Desert, Monument Valley, Painted Desert, Meteor Crater, Hoover Dam, Petrified Forest) New Mexico: (Colorado River, Rocky Mountains, 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)

500

Name the 5 natural diasters that happen in the south west.

Drought, Wildfires, Dust Storms, Flash Flooding, Tornadoes



500

Name something traditional from one Southwest Native American tribe.

What is pottery,wicker baskets, Kachinas Dolls, kivas, clay home architecture, deerskin clothing, farming tools, handwoven rugs, etc. 

500

What Country boarders the southwest?

What Mexico