The Southwest Region

Where can you find a canyon?

• Next to a mesa

• Between 2 buttes

• Between 2 plateaus

• In the grasslands

What caused the dust bowl?

• Poor farming practices and a long drought

• Lots of wind and lots of people

• flat land and lots of sun

• To many ranches with to many cattle

Which answer is NOT a way things adapt to survive in the desert?

• Store extra water for dry times

• Nothing can survive in the desert

• Lightly colored bodies

• only come out at night

When did the dust bowl occur?

• 1930s

• 1830s

• 1990s

• 1920s

What state is not a member of the Southwest region?

• Texas

• New Mexico

• California

• Arizona

What is one way the Hopi tribe did NOT grow corn in the such a dry climate?

• Plant the seeds deeper in the ground

• Use aqueducts

• Plant the seeds in canyons

• Plant seeds in areas that flood

Why did ranchers begin to do cattle drives to the northeast?

• The northeast had a large demand for cattle

• It was easy for rancher to move cattle

• The cows grow better in the northeast

• It was to dry for cattle in the southwest

What were the Spanish looking for in the southwest region?

• Oil

• Diamonds

• Silver and gold

• Cattle

What ended the need to do cattle drives?

• Barbed wire fences

• trains

• the northeast didn't need any more cattel

• Semi trucks

How many Hopi people still live on their reservations today?

• about 1,000

• about 10,000

• about 20,000

• about 100,000