| A | B |
|---|
| Capital of Texas | Austin |
| Capital of Oklahoma | Oklahoma City |
| Capital of Arizona | Phoenix |
| Capital of New Mexico | Santa Fe |
| River running through the Grand Canyon | Colorado River |
| caused the Grand Canyon to form | erosion by the Colorado River |
| huge mountain range in NM & AR | Rocky Mts. |
| forms the border between Mexico & US | Rio Grande River |
| river that forms the border between TX & OK | Red River |
| desert in SW Arizona | Sonoran Desert |
| desert between the Colorado Plateau & Grand Canyon in Northwestern Arizona | Painted Desert |
| river that cuts across Northeastern Oklahoma | Arkansas River |
| plant or animal changes over many years allowing it survival | adaptation |
| dry lands where little rain falls | desert |
| climate on the coastal plain of Texas | warm & rainy |
| an area of the Great Plains that experienced great droughts | Dustbowl |
| erosion | describes how water, wind, or ice carry away soil and rock |
| a deep, narrow valley with steep sides | canyon |
| like plateaus, only smaller | mesas |
| even smaller than mesas | buttes |
| ways to explore the Grand Canyon | Hiking, riding mules, and white water rafting down the river |
| where the river flows very swiftly as the elevation drops | rapid |
| store several tons of water after a rainfall | saquaro cactus |
| Most desert animals are light colors | animal adaptation |
| precious resource in the SW region | water |
| fertile wheat growing country in OK, NM, & TX | Great Plains |
| a way to grow crops with only rainfall | dry farming |
| underground layers of rock that trap water | aquifer |
| an oil well that produces a large amount of oil | gusher |
| Factories that separate or refine oil into usable groups of chemicals | refinery |
| thick, black liquid that comes from an oil well and is not usable until refined | crude oil |
| hot and seasonally dry climate region of the SW with grassy plains and few trees | savanna |
| examples of trees that can grow on the savanna | pinon pines, junipers, and baobob trees |
| dry, but not desert; receives an average of 10 in. of rain a year | arid climate |
| early Native Americans of the SW | Anasazi |
| a kind of mud brick used to build SW homes | adobe |
| may be descendents of the Anasazi | Pueblo people |
| means "village"; some Pueblo people lived in villages of adobe homes | pueblo |
| explored the SW in search of gold in the mid 1500s | Francisco Vasquez de Coronado |
| explored the Grand Canyon in 1869 | Major John Wesley Powell |
| visited the Grand Canyon & wanted to preserve it as a National Park | President Theodore Roosevelt |
| wind, water from the river, loose gravel & sand | causes of the Grand Canyon's continued erosion |
| it cannot be replaced by nature | nonrenewable resource |
| a nonrenewable resource in the SW | oil |
| aircraft & missile mfg., computer, radio, calculator production; space industry | SW technology industries |
| one of the largest radio observatories | the Very Large Array |
| has labs to study & develop military resources and nuclear energy | New Mexico |
