This river wore away at rock to create the Grand Canyon.
What is the Colorado River?
100
Which part of the Southwest is more arid, the eastern or western portion?
What is the western portion?
100
This is a nonrenewable resource of the Southwest.
What is oil?
100
Another name for a Spanish village is
What is a pueblo?
100
This is the body of water that borders Texas.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
200
This is the process that keeps the formations in the Grand Canyon always changing.
What is erosion?
200
These two words describe the climate of the Southwest.
What are arid, hot, humid, or windy?
200
This is the definition of a nonrenewable resource.
What is that it cannot be replace by nature?
200
This is another name for mud brick.
What is an adobe?
200
This is the capital of Texas.
What is Austin?
300
This is why the Grand Canyon was made into a National Park.
What is to preserve its beauty?
300
This is the defintion of a desert.
What is an area that gets less than 10 inches of rain each year?
300
Name 2 technology industries that exist in the Southwest Region.
What are aircraft/missile manufacturing, computer, radio, calculator production or space industry?
300
Name a synonym for arid.
What is dry?
300
Santa Fe is the capital of this state.
What is New Mexico?
400
Name 2 reasons why people might visit the Grand Canyon.
What is to bike, hike, or learn about history from Park Rangers?
400
Name a reason how the Saguaro has adapted to little rainfall.
What is they use their shallow roots to drink up water, they can store water in their trunk or, they can store enough water to survive through long, dry periods?
400
This Southwest state has laboratories that develop military resources and study nuclear energy.
What is New Mexico?
400
This is the definition of a savanna.
What is a grassy plain on which few trees grow?
400
The state and capital that both contain the same name.
What are Oklahoma and Oklahoma City?
500
This is the president, who visited the Grand Canyon in 1903, who pushed to have it made into a Naional Park.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
500
This is how the Saguaro helps desert wildlife.
What is they provide shelter for animals?
500
This is the name of the world's largest radio observatory.
What is The Very Large Array?
500
This is the name of the factory that separates oil into different components.
What is a refinery?
500
The state that both Grand Canyon and Sonoran Desert reside.