Across
- 3. The long period without rain that led to infertile soil
- 4. The most terrorizing storms during the dust bowl that covered the skies in a black storm of topsoil
- 6. Author of "The Grapes of Wrath"
- 8. The period of drought and disaster in the 1930s
- 9. Area that got hit by the Dust Bowl
- 11. The term given to the migrants that fled to Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl
Down
- 1. Excessive plowing of land to cultivate crops like wheat
- 2. The process many Americans did to find fertile soil and better living conditions
- 5. The president responsible for creating policies and enacting laws to alleviate dust bowl issues
- 7. The period of economic hardship in America partly caused by the effects of the dust bowl
- 10. The process of wind carrying topsoil that led to large dust clouds
