DustBowl

2. agency that provides technical assistance to farmers and other private land owners
3. methods to prevent wind erosion
4. the name explorers would refer the Great Plains a
6. how many Americans were left homeless in 1935
8. choking billows of dust
9. experienced drought conditions up to eight years
10. developed in 1937 to reestablish native grasses
13. a period of drier than normal conditions
15. a person identified with the state Oklahoma
18. "Migrant Mother"
20. the upper layer of soil
21. the act that encouraged settlement and development of the Plains
24. and ecosystem located in the Great Plains
28. the name of the severe dust storm on April 14th, 1935
29. the name of the railroad that was 1,911 continuous miles
31. what government formed to create relief activities
32. process where land because less healthy and productive

1. when plants are exposed to intensive grazing over a extended period of time
2. how many acres of land was effected by the Dust Bowl
5. a popular phrase real estate promoters used
7. disorders caused by excessive exposure to dust storms
11. established the Soil Erosion Service
12. an agency within the US department of agriculture that administers the nations forests and grasslands
14. broad expanse of flatland,located east of the Rocky Mountains
16. the name of the years that had rich soil
17. a New Deal agency created to combat rural poverty
19. a method of farming which involves cultivating a field partitioned into long narrow strips
22. practice of plowing or planting across a slope
23. the result of a period of severe dust storms
25. a period of severe economic downfall
26. the act of surface processes that removes rock,soil or dissolved materials
27. received less than 20 inches of rain annually
30. made of fine particles of solid matter