The Southwestern U.S.A.

Question 1

Nigeria's economy grew because of petroleum.

Accepted Answer

Fact

Question 2

What is Nigeria's largest city?

Accepted Answer

Lagos

Question 3

Why did the dust bowl occur?

Accepted Answer

Poor farming methods, drought, stripping prairie grasses.

Question 4

Which things are made from petrochemicals?

Accepted Answer

gasoline, paint, wax, blacktop

Question 5

Which state hosts the nation's top oil refining center?

Accepted Answer

Houston, Texas

Question 6

How many states are included in the Southwest?

Accepted Answer

4

Question 7

Many people moved to the southwest to look for oil creating towns called:

Accepted Answer

boom towns

Question 8

Oil is very useful.

Accepted Answer

Opinion

Question 9

Land forms you can find in the southwest are:

Accepted Answer

buttes, canyons, plateaus

Question 10

Patillo Higgins digging crew found oil in which southwestern state?

Accepted Answer

Texas

Question 11

What is another name for oil?

Accepted Answer

petroleum

Question 12

Saguaro Cactus can survive in the heat of the desert because they----------.

Accepted Answer

have adaptions

Question 13

What is the deep narrow valley that stretches 217 miles through northern Arizona called ?

Accepted Answer

Grand Canyon

Question 14

How did the Grand Canyon form?

Accepted Answer

The Colorado River caused erosion to occur.

Question 15

Which plant grows in the Sonoran Desert?

Accepted Answer

Saguaro Cactus

Question 16

Which resource is known as "black gold"

Accepted Answer

crude oil

Question 17

Oil can be used for many different products.

Accepted Answer

Fact

Question 18

Where did a drilling crew find oil in 1905?

Accepted Answer

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Question 19

What is the process of water, wind, and ice slowly carrying away rock and soil?

Accepted Answer

erosion

Question 20

Nigeria grew rapidly because of what resource?

Accepted Answer

crude oil

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