dust bowl

2. nickname people had for dust storms.
3. students had to stay after for hours or even overnight because of dust storms, and many schools were shut down.
6. a major cause of the dust bowl where there was no rain for a long period of time.
8. a major cause of the dust bowl where people would farm too much and it made the soil loose and blow away.
9. the region in the US where the dust bowl occured, includes states like Oklahoma and Kansas.
12. a photographer that took pictures during the great depression and dust bowl that became famous and spread awareness.
13. a nickname that people have for the period of time when the dust bowl took place.
14. a group that planted trees to reduce dust storms>
15. the day when one of the worst dust storms during the dust bowl happened.

1. a tactic that the government used to encourage people to move out of the great plains by giving them land for free or very cheap.
4. one of the furthest places that the dust reached that helped people realise how serious the problem was.
5. a strategy that the government used to decrease dust storms.
7. derogatory name for people who moved away from the great plains to western states like California.
10. a condition caused by breathing in dust for long periods of time.
11. animals that were killed or injured during dust storms because of the high speed winds.