The Dust Bowl

3. A climate that receives little to no rain
5. A method used to prevent soil erosion
7. A practice to intentionally set fires to straw stubble to clear fields
11. The type of prairies abundant in the Great Plains
12. An American writer who was influenced by the dustbowl and later won the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature
14. Dust winds blew all the way here and left 12 million pounds of dust
21. A 2014 science-fiction movie inspired by the dust storm
22. Ordered by Roosevelt to plant the Great Plains Shatterbelt, 200 million trees to break the wind and hold the water in the soil
23. Killed many people especially in Oklahoma and Kansas because there was not enough food
24. 50,000 Americans were left ____
25. The region that experienced drought conditions for 8 yeas
26. The main people impacted due to no farmable land
27. A permanent settlement in a new region

1. Cause from cattle and led many landowners to increase the amount of land under cultivation
2. Disorder when there is excessive exposure to dust storms; lungs are filled with dust
4. A practice using land solely for livestock
6. The wind erosion and human settlement mostly destroyed this
8. Name explorers called the Great Plains
9. Land gets less healthy and productive because of human activities or natural conditions
10. Administration to combat poverty
13. Day when 20 of the worst black blizzards swept the Great Plains
15. Removal of soil or rock form the surface
16. The Dust bowl a a severe period of ____
17. Barely functioning cars that were used to travel out of the dust bowl
18. The tendency for soil to break into smaller pieces under stress or contact
19. A type of farming not using irrigation for crops
20. The biggest mountain range in North America