WorksheetsAge of Oil and Natural Disaters
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which image shows an urban area?
How did the overproduction of oil affect the price?
Where crude petroleum is refined, or cleaned, to make it ready to use
oil cleaning
refinery
oil finisher
The process by which towns and cities are formed and become larger
Urbanization
Industrialization
Incorporation
Site near Beaumont in 1901 where a gusher spewed oil for 9 days at a rate estimated at 100,000 barrels of oil per day. This started the age of oil.
Ranger
Houston
Spindletop
What was the goal of the Texas Equal Suffrage Association?
right for women to vote
a graduated income tax
reform for prisons
public warehouses for crop storage
In what year did oil drillers discover the first major oil field in Texas?
1901
1836
1865
1918
The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 was especially devastating because -
few people listened to the many warnings to leave the island
there was little advance warning of the hurricane and therefore no preparations for it
Galveston's commission government was not capable of dealing with the crisis.
the sea wall and other protective measures taken earlier proved insufficient
Which region of Texas was affected by the Dust Bowl?
Great Plains
Coastal Plains
Mountains & Basins
Which was NOT one of the causes of the Dust Bowl?
drought
overgrazing
high precipitation
high winds
The image shows:
Galveston Hurricane
Dust Bowl
