Dust Bowl

3. A period of time when water is scarce which caused the ground to crack
4. a nickname for people in Oklahoma
6. (an Abbreviation) an agency that provided technical agriculture system assistance
7. a person who settles in or occupies a piece of property with no legal claim to the property
9. A (_) is a water channel containing a (_) gate, a type of lock to manage the water flow and water level.
10. (an Abbreviation) to coordinate relief activities, brought agriculture to areas to help the people in need.
12. A city in Italy where Italians were among the first to settle permanently in the Sierra Nevada foothills
13. methods to prevent wind erosion farming
15. A severe drought that occured April 14th, 1935
17. a disease that comes from drinking infected water that occured easily during the great depression due to the lack of good water
19. a nickname for a car during the great depression that is often damaged and barley functional
20. Broad expansive farm land in America
21. nickname for dust storms that
25. ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands,savannas and shrublands biome
26. A period of time of severe drought that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture system of the US and Canada prairies in 1930.
27. Sub-region of the great plains
28. Famous photo taken by Dorothea Lange during her time with the resettlement administration
29. a region in Texas that is square shaped area that is bordered by Mexico

1. A period of severe global economic downturn
2. A famous author who also wrote the "mice and men" during the great depression
5. a water powered sawmill created by John Sutter
8. American settler, businessman, journalist, and prominent Mormon who founded the California Star
11. a large, flat freight boat used on rivers, often a recreational of a yacht
14. 300,000 Americans came in search for this material in California
16. 86,000 people migrated to California
18. a U.S. statute that amended the 1862 Homestead Act, so that public domain land could be acquired free of charge
22. a form of respiratory disease when the lungs are filled with dust
23. a deserted town with few or no remaining inhabitants.
24. occurs when plants are exposed to intensive grazing for extended periods of time, or without sufficient recovery periods
26. a process where land becomes less healthy and productive due to a combination of human and nature actions