Across
- 2. where it got its name
- 3. Amendment stating one section of public land could be acquired.
- 7. name given to people displaced by dust bowl that were from Oklahoma
- 10. swaths of trees that protect soil and crops from wind
- 12. name given to the Midwest by European explorers
- 13. machine that farmers used to convert grass to cultivated farmland
- 15. In just over a year, 86000 people migrated to _____
- 17. dust storms reduced visibility to ____ feet
- 18. Where plants are exposed to livestock consuming them for long periods of time
- 19. Due to the growing demand of crops, farmland _____
- 21. day when the worst dust storm of the dust bowl happened
Down
- 1. Federal agency in New Deal that helped people suffering the dust bowl
- 4. sickness that was caused by the dust
- 5. Most of the farmland in the Midwest was _____after the dust bowl
- 6. name refered to the time the dust bowl took place
- 8. subregion of great plains hit by dust bowl
- 9. nickname for a severe dust storm
- 11. Provides technical service to farmers or private land owners
- 14. author that wrote a book about farmers driven from their home due to the dust bowl
- 16. natural factor that helped cause dust bowl
- 20. group that planted trees in FDR's Shelterbelt project
