Dust Bowl Puzzle

5. In the 1930s, eastern Colorado experienced the worst __________ disaster in the state’s history.
8. Dust covered roads and made them ______________, suffocated livestock, destroyed crops, and laid ruin to the livelihoods of thousands of eastern Coloradans.
9. The storms destroyed __________ of farmland acres
11. The _______________ Act of 1862 allowed American citizens to claim parcels of 160 acres in the arid West.
12. “dusters”—large dust ___________
14. undulating fields of wheat, sugar ________, and other crops
15. during the day and the fine dust forced people to put ________ sheets over doors and windows.

1. ________________ farming practices and widespread drought transformed the once fertile Great Plains into a barren landscape
2. Throughout the 1930s, southeastern Colorado and the Great Plains experienced extreme _____________.
3. The lack of ___________________ meant hundreds of thousands of acres no longer had plants to anchor the soil to the ground.
4. The region received a meager 126 total inches of _____________ between 1930 and 1939
6. the "Great __________ Desert" into America’s breadbasket.
7. The Dust Bowl encompassed the entire Great ___________.
10. wore _____________ and masks of wet towels when they dared venture outdoors.
13. __________ was not uncommon in the semiarid regions of Colorado