Name ______________ date __________

SOCIAL STUDIES
(study-guide)

1.A __________________ is a small hill or plateau with a flat top and steep sides.

2. A ____________________ is a steep hill of rock with a flat top, like a mesa, but smaller.

3.A ____________________ is a person who has no permanent home.

4.A ______________ is a mixture of sandy clay and straw that is dried into bricks.

5.__________________ the Spanish word for village.

6.__________________- religious settlements

7. A group of  people who have many things in common. ______________________

8.A ___________________ is land set aside by the government for use by Indians.

9.Who were two Native American groups to settle in the Southwest desert region long ago? _____________________________________, __________________________________

10.Who claimed most of the Southwest desert region for Spain? ____________________________

WORD BOX:

CORONADO  ANASAZI     LENAPI   RESERVATION 

SOCIETY   MESA   NOMAD  BUTTE  ADOBE  MISSION  

PUEBLO    HOHOKAM      JEFFERSON   

 

Name _____________________________ date ________________________

Social Studies study-guide 2

(The Southwest Desert Region)

1.The drier side of the mountain ____________________________________.

2.A sudden heavy rain __________________________________.

3.A large pipe or canal built to carry water.___________________________

4.A deep gully or ditch carved by running water. ____________________________

5.A _______________________ is someone who moves from farm to farm with the seasons, harvesting crops.

6. Blowing sand often forms hill-like mounds called _____________________________

7.An area in the desert where there is water _________________________________

8.The process of the sun?s heat turning water into a gas form ____________________________

9. What features do all deserts have? ____________________________________________________

a)sand dunes

b)hot temperatures

c)mountains and plateaus

d)dry climates

10.Mountains can help deserts form because they

a)are the source of many rivers

b)keep moist air from reaching the land

c)affect the flow of continents' rivers

d)contain many mineral resources

WORD BOX:
 SAND DUNES MIGRANT WORKER    CLOUDBURST
 
 ARROYO   EVAPORATION   RAIN SHADOW  

 AQUEDUCT      DESALINIZATION         OASIS  

Name ______________ __________ date __________

The Southwest Desert Region

(study-guide 3)

1.In 1540 Francisco Vasquez de Coronado began an __________
into the Southwest Desert region.
2.In 1610 __________ was built as Spain's colonial capital of New Mexico.
3.The rain shadows cause water to be __________ in the Southwest desert states, because many places lie on the side of the mountain.
4.Most of the water at an oasis comes from __________ _______________.
5.People are working hard to _________ their water resources (use them wisely)
6.People in the Southwest Desert states get water today from rivers or from ______________________ formed by dams built across wells.
7.They also pump groundwater from ________________.
8.Aqueducts, ____________ and _____________ carry water from those sources to the places where people live.
9.The Southwest desert region has mesas, deserts and ______________.
10.Name three ways people in the Southwest Desert region conserve water resources. a) _______________________________________________________________ b) ________________________________________________________________ c) __________________________________________________________________


WORD BOX:

Santa Fe, canals and pipelines, expedition, wells,
underground springs, canyons, conserve, waste , reservoirs , plentiful , Miami, scarce

WEEKEND Homework

Define the following words:

1.drought
2.decades
3.economy
4.region
5.immigration
6.cultural heritage
7.reservoir
8.dam
9.population
10. conserve