Dust Bowl

In what decade did the Dust Bowl take place?

• 1920's

• 1930's

• 1940's

• 1950's

Soil and dust from Oklahoma and Kansas blew away to places as far away as Chicago, New York, and the Atlantic Ocean, causing the skies in those places to be black, with the dust covering virtually everything outside.

• True

• False

Name one place that the dust from the Dust Bowl did NOT come from:  (a) Oklahoma; (b) Kansas; (c) New Mexico; (d) Colorado; (e) Texas; (f) Florida.

• Oklahoma

• Kansas

• New Mexico

• Texas

• Florida

The economy in the 1920's had been horrible leading up to the Great Depression in the 1930's.

• True

• False

Before massive planting of the middle part of the U.S. took place, the area featured the greatest grassland the world had ever seen.

• True

• False

A lot of rain with little wind were both major causes of the Dust Bowl.

• True

• False

Farmer couldn't water their crops because:

• They didn't have the technology to reach the water below them

• There was no water in their area

Why was did the Dust Bowl happen?

• Very little rain

• Overplanting of crops

• High wind

• All of the above

What was happening to the economy in the 1930's while the Dust Bowl was happening?

• Business was doing very well

• There was a Great Depression where there was massive unemployment, and businesses were doing horribly

Was Dust blowing away from the Tulsa area in the 1930's?

• Yes

• No