Oil Boom Texas history 7th grade

A type of oil that is the source for gasoline.

• Petroleum

• Reserve

• Refinery

• Petrochemical

A framework or tower that supports a drill over a deep hole.

• Derrick

• Reserve

• Wildcatter

• Petroleum

An economic cycle in which high demand leads to high output, which results in falling prices and hard times.

• Boom-and-Bust-Cycle

• Natural Gas

• Boomtown

• Wildcatter

A fossil fuel formed deep inside the earth, often found with oil.

• Natural Gas

• Petroleum

• Petrochemical

• Boomtown

A town that experiences sudden growth in population and business.

• Boomtown

• Refinery

• Derrick

• Reserve

A building equipped to refine or process products such as oils, metals or sugar.

• Refinery

• Wildcatter

• Reserve

• Derrick

An independent oil driller.

• Wildcatter

• Petrochemical

• Derrick

• Petroleum

Any substance made from petroleum or natural gas.

• Petrochemical

• Synthetic Rubber

• Petroleum

• Reserve

Before Spindletop, Texas was considered an

• Industrial state

• agricultural state

• technological state

What did they call the crude oil that came out of the ground?

• Mud

• Black gold

• Gas

• Dirt