Dust Bowl: Alberta History

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Across
  1. 5. Some people moved to ______ parts of the province to find new land
  2. 8. This province, along with Alberta, was hit hard by the Dust Bowl
  3. 10. ______ were slow to help farmers during the crisis
  4. 11. Some families moved to big cities like ______ or Edmonton
Down
  1. 1. Families sometimes had to hide in a ______ during a dust storm
  2. 2. Dry, windy storms that covered everything in sand and dirt
  3. 3. Insects like grasshoppers and ______ destroyed crops during the 1930s
  4. 4. The natural disaster that caused farms to dry out
  5. 6. The ______ took back many farms when families couldn’t pay
  6. 7. Farmers planted wheat instead of the native ______ that held the soil together
  7. 9. Prairie provinces like Alberta were known as the ______ Basket of North America.