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  1. 3. The state where the Dust Bowl began.
  2. 6. The main cause that led to extended droughts, unusually high temperatures, and poor agricultural practices, leading to the Dust Bowl.
  3. 8. During the Dust Bowl, food prices _______ because farms were lost.
  4. 10. About how much percent of the country was affected by the dust storms in the 1930s?
  5. 12. Dust Bowl were caused by hot temperature, extended droughts, and excessive_______.
  6. 13. Besides Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, this state, much bigger than the rest was greatly affected by the Dust Bowl.
  7. 14. Most farm families migrated _______ during the Dust Bowl.
  8. 15. During the suffering droughts, many people migrated west looking for _____.
  9. 18. The name of the organization that resolved the Dust Bowl by planting millions of trees.
  10. 21. The name of the AP reporter that named the term "Dust Bowl" because of the drought's effect on the south central U.S.
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  1. 1. One of the disease that people suffered from inhaling the airborne prairie dust was _____.
  2. 2. Plain The severe droughts affected the MidWest and _____ region in the 1930s.
  3. 3. A blanket term used to describe all agricultural migrants, no matter their home states.
  4. 4. In 1937, they stepped up these efforts, paying farmers to practice more expensive soil preservation techniques, like ______.
  5. 5. What year did the Dust Bowl start? (spell numbers with words)
  6. 7. What year did the Dust Bowl end? (spell numbers with words)
  7. 9. During the Dust Bowl animals _____ without enough crops to feed them.
  8. 11. Who had no money to pay banks when they ran out of crops or animals to sell?
  9. 16. The term that refers to the ground drying up and turning into dust.
  10. 17. Another name for Dust Bowl since it started in the 1930s and lasted for about a decade.
  11. 19. People began to plant _____ to stop the blowing soil from the Dust Bowl.
  12. 20. When people lost their crops, animals, and jobs, they became ______.