Texas Dust Bowl

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