The Dust Bowl

What is the Dust Bowl?

• It refers to a time and place in which the extreme drought and land conditions made it impossible for farmers to grow crops and dust storms made it difficult to breathe.

• a time when dust blew up during a game at the rec

• it refers to dust in the bowls of people out West

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In what time period did the Dust Bowl occur?

• 1950s

• 1920s

• 1930s

• 1990s

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Where did the Dust Bowl occur?

• Eastern part of the US

• Mid-West part of US

• Florida

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According to the film, "The Dust Bowl", what was the main cause of the Dust Bowl?

• government officials making too many laws and regulations

• cattlemen who let their cattle graze too much

• over-plowing the land

• both B and C

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The "Dust Bowl" film uses which elements to express the main idea of the film?

• narrator's voice

• the font of the title

• the music

• all of the above

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