Texas Dust Bowl
Across
- 4. to wear away slowly by wind or water
- 6. April 14, 1935. This was the worst dust storm in Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado.
- 11. the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s
- 12. A long time without rain. This happened in the Great Plains in 1930.
Down
- 1. Farmers that left the Great Plains because of stroms and harvested crops from place to place.
- 2. The planting of different crops in a field each year to preserve the soil's productivity.
- 3. Soil turned into dust because of the drought and poor farming techniques. This caused dust storms to sweep across the Great Plains.
- 5. A large flat area of the central United States and western Canada that is covered in grasslands
- 7. farm animals
- 8. The protection of valuable things, especially forests, wildlife, natural resources,and artistic or historic objects.
- 9. A way of supplying water to an area of land
- 10. Broke up soil using a piece of farm equipment pulled by an animal or tractor