The cards say Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, and Montana. What state card belongs in the Southwest region?

A map activity compares Texas, Florida, Ohio, and New York. What state is part of the Southwest region?

The cards say Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. What state card belongs in the Southwest region?

A student sorts New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and California by region. What state belongs in the Southwest region?

The cards say Texas, Georgia, Illinois, and Maine. What state card belongs in the Southwest region?

A class compares Arizona, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. What state is in the Southwest region?

The cards say Oklahoma, Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota. What state card belongs in the Southwest region?

A region chart lists New Mexico, Nebraska, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania. What state belongs in the Southwest region?

The cards say Arizona, California, Colorado, and Nevada. What state card belongs in the Southwest region?

A teacher reads four state names: Texas, Mississippi, Indiana, and New Jersey. What state is in the Southwest region?

A traveler in the Southwest crosses very dry land with sparse plants and broad open views. What environment is being described?

In the Southwest, a river carves steep rock walls over a long time. What landform can this process make?

A Southwest mesa has a flat top and steep sides. What larger landform is a broad, high, flat area?

The Rio Grande forms part of the U.S.-Mexico border in the Southwest. What kind of physical feature is it?

A river flowing through Southwest canyons helped carve the Grand Canyon. What river is famous for that work?

What climate description best fits much of the Southwest region?

Dry, cracked ground like this is common in the Southwest. What is a long period with much less rain than normal called?

A Southwest hill has a flat top, steep sides, and rises above the land around it. What landform is described?

Desert parts of the Southwest have plants adapted to little water. What vegetation is common there?

Days in the Southwest desert are often very hot. What are desert nights often like?

Underground deposits in parts of the Southwest support drilling and pipelines. What natural resources are important there?

Which kind of work has a long tradition in the open grasslands of the Southwest?

Farmers in dry Southwest valleys bring water to fields through canals and pipes. What kind of farming does this make possible?

Some Southwest mines produce a reddish metal used in wires and pipes. What resource is mined there?

Visitors travel to Southwest canyons, deserts, and national parks. What industry grows because people come to see these places?

Spanish and Mexican cattle herders brought many ranching skills to the Southwest, such as roping cattle from horseback. What were these herders called?

Oil and natural gas took millions of years to form underground and cannot be replaced quickly. What kind of resources are they?

People in the Southwest build walls across rivers to store water in lakes called reservoirs. What are these walls called?

Some Southwest farms pump water up from deep under the ground. What is the underground layer of rock and soil that holds this water called?

The Rio Grande provides water in a dry part of the Southwest. What human activity can it support nearby?

The Colorado River carved the Grand Canyon over millions of years. In which Southwest state is the Grand Canyon?

Because parts of the Southwest have many sunny days, what renewable energy resource is often harvested there?

Mines near Carlsbad, New Mexico, produce large amounts of a mineral used to make fertilizer for farms. What mineral is it?

Albuquerque, the biggest city in New Mexico, grew up along a river that brings water to the dry land. What river is it?

Plateaus and mesas make striking scenery in the Southwest. What local job can this scenery help create?

Hot, dry conditions in the Southwest mean people plan carefully for scarce water. What public choice helps manage that challenge?

Much of the Southwest is hot and dry. What climate words better describe the Southeast region?

The walls of Southwest canyons show many stripes of rock stacked on top of each other. What are these stripes called?

Compared with the Midwest's Great Lakes, the Southwest is closely connected to a river along the U.S.-Mexico border. What river is it?

The West region has a long Pacific coast, but only one Southwest state has a coast. Which state touches the Gulf of Mexico?