Dust Bowl

1. Because of this, farmers received 160 acres of
6. a water source far underneath the ground of the Great Plains
9. have a unique environment that is naturally very windy, very hot during the day, and prone to long droughts
10. an underground layer of rock, sand, or gravel that holds and can supply a large amount of water
11. the amount of people who abandoned/left the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl (word form)

2. the richest and most nutritious part of the soil
3. the event in which the Great Plains experienced its first black blizzard, one of the -worst dust storms ever seen in American history
4. land so long as they lived on it and farmed it for five years to encourage westward expansion of the US
5. generations of farmers—starting with the original pioneers—plowed the Great Plains and used up the topsoil
7. grasslands couldn’t be used for farming, which allowed the natural prairie grass to grow back and kept the topsoil in place
8. The Great Plains were a great place to grow _.