Across
- 1. The small city in Texas where oil was first drilled before Spindletop
- 3. The largest city in Texas that grew because of the oil industry
- 4. The name of the structure that is built around an oil drilling site, to support the drill. (First three letters are the word oil.)
- 7. A way of getting oil or gas out of the ground by drilling down then sideways. (Hint: ITs one of the vocabulary words you had to research.)
- 9. Someone to takes a risk to drill for oil, not knowing if there will be any there.
- 10. Another word for oil when it comes out of the ground
- 12. What a town in Texas was called when people discovered oil near it, and suddenly it grew in population overnight
Down
- 2. A place where petroleum is cleaned and made into products such as gasoline
- 5. One of the largest cities in Texas that became a financial and banking center.
- 6. The big "gusher" in 1901 that started the oil boom in Texas
- 8. Nickname for when oil comes shooting out of the ground
- 11. An industry that grew in the East Texas piney woods because the oilmen needed to build derricks