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21 Cards in this Set
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the process of water, wind, and ice slowly carrying away rock and soil
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erosion
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An aquifer is a source of ...
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water
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amount of rain that falls each year in a desert is less than ...
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10 inches
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Farmers plowed up prairie grasses so they could do what? (cause of the Dust Bowl)
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plant wheat
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Like the SW the Us and Nigeria has grown rapidly as a result of what?
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petrolium
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deep, narrow valley that stretches 217 miles through northern Arizona
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Grand Canyon
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Giant cactus trees called saguaros grow in this area in Arizona
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Sonoran Desert
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Patillo Higgins dicovered oil in this state in 1901
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Texas
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This city is our nation's top oil-refining center
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Houston
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1905- a drilling crew found oil near this city in Oklahoma
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Tulsa
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Southwest states
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Texas
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early 1600s- Navajo survived mainly by ...
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herding
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Navojo leader
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Manuelito
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1821- the southwest became part of ...
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Mexico
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invention that meant the end of the long cattle drives
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barbed wire
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1940s- object manufactured in the southwest
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weapons
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city in Arizona that is the Navajo capital
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Window Rock
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city that was the capital of the Spanish colony of New Mexico
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Santa Fe
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name for the Navajo reservation
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Dinetah
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part of the US that has a warm sunny climate all or most of the year
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Sun Belt
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place in Arizona that is home to the largest solar telescope in the world
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Kitt Peak
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