1. Southwest Jeopardy 10 20 30 40 50 Grand Canyon Dry Southwest
Black Gold
Landforms
HodgePodge 10 20 30 40 50

2. What region is the Grand
Canyon located in?
Category

3. What is the name of the river that eroded the Grand Canyon?
Category

4. What are some things you
can do if you visit the
Grand Canyon?

5. Grand Canyon get carved into such fantastic shapes?
How did the walls of the
Grand Canyon get carved
into such fantastic shapes?

6. How long and how wide
is the Grand Canyon?

7. A desert gets less than ______ inches of precipitation each year.

8. How are plants and animals
able to live
in desert conditions?

9. Southwest get their water?
Where do people in the
Southwest get their water?

10. _______ _____________, which depends on rain to
Some farmers use
_______ _____________,
which depends on rain to
provide enough water for crops.

11. What is the name given to the droughts and dust storms
in the Great Plains area that
occurred in the 1930’s?

12. What is oil called before
it is refined to
make it useful?

13. Road signs, traffic lights,
and paint are examples
of things that are made
from this.

14. Petrochemicals such as
plastic are made
from ______________.

15. Why must crude oil
be refined?

16. What formed in the
Southwest after oil
was discovered?

17. Many different landforms in the Southwest were formed
by ____________________.

18. What action caused the
Grand Canyon to form?

19. Mesas, buttes, and ___________
are some of the Southwest’s
Interesting landforms.

20. Wind and water erode parts
of the land to create
canyons, mesas, and
_______________.

21. These are like plateaus, only smaller. They look
like hills with flat tops.

22. who predicts the location
What do we call a person
who predicts the location
of oil?

23. Crude oil from wells often end up in a _____________ in Houston.

24. Some Southwestern farmers dig wells to find water in _______________.

25. Which state of the Southwest produces more than half of our
country’s copper?

26. What is the name of the bean used to make cocoa, grown in Nigeria?