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Southwest United States Jeopardy
Points of Interest
Vocabulary History The Colorado River
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Final Jeopardy
Grab Bag
$100 Question – Points of Interest
The mesas in this location are made of shale and sandstone.
$100 Answer – Points of Interest
What is Monument Valley?
$200 Question – Points of Interest
With a population of more than 1,461,000
people, this is the sixth-largest city in the
United States.
$200 Answer – Points of Interest
What is Phoenix, Arizona?
$300 Question – Points of Interest
The Hoover Dam sits on the border of these two
states.
$300 Answer – Points of Interest
What are Arizona and Nevada?
$400 Question – Points of Interest
This city was settled in one day.
$400 Answer – Points of Interest
What is Guthrie, Oklahoma?
$500 Question – Points of Interest
The Rio Grande forms the border between the
United States and Mexico. It also
separates these two busy cities.
$500 Answer – Points of Interest
What are El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez?
$100 Question – Vocabulary
To change in order to survive
$100 Answer – Vocabulary
What is adapt?
$200 Question – Vocabulary
The image below is an example of a flat-
topped hill.
$200 Answer – Vocabulary
What is a mesa?
$300 Question – Vocabulary
This is a large cave, Carlsbad is an example of
one.
$300 Answer – Vocabulary
What is a cavern?
$400 Question – Vocabulary
Canals, pipes, ad ditches are examples of this system for carrying water from one
place to another.
$400 Answer – Vocabulary
What is irrigation?
$500 Question – Vocabulary
The careful use of a resource.
$500 Answer – Vocabulary
What is conservation?
$100 Question – History
The explorers from this country were the first
Europeans to explore the southwest in 1540.
$100 Answer – History
What is Spain?
$200 Question – History
During his second journey, he made a map of the
Colorado River.
$200 Answer – History
Who is John Wesley Powell?
$300 Question – History
Name one of the two American Indian groups that once made their home in the
Colorado River Basin.
$300 Answer – History
Who were the Abasazis and Hohokams?
$400 Question – Major Cities
This agreement, which divided the Colorado
River Basin into two parts, was reached in 1922.
$400 Answer – History
What is the Colorado River
Compact?
$500 Question – History
For Texans, this was an important step in their
battle for freedom.
$500 Answer – History
What was the Battle at the Alamo?
$100 Question – The Colorado River
Many smaller rivers flow into the Colorado River. What do we call
these rivers that join other larger rivers?
$100 Answer – The Colorado River
What is a tributary?
$200 Question – The Colorado River
Spanish settlers eventually named
the river, Colorado, which
means this.
$200 Answer – The Colorado River
What is ‘reddish brown?’
$300 Question – The Colorado River
This forms as water backs up behind a dam,
where water is stored for people’s use..
$300 Answer – The Colorado River
What is a reservoir?
$400 Question - The Colorado River
The distance of the Colorado River from it’s source in the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of California.
$400 Answer – The Colorado River
What is 1,450 miles?
$500 Question – The Colorado River
In 1540 this Spanish soldier led an army north from Mexico.
Spanish settlers followed him to the Southwest.
$500 Answer – The Colorado River
Who was Fransisco Vasquez de Coronado?
$100 Question – Grab Bag
The capital cities of the 4 Southwest
states.
$100 Answer – Grab Bag
What are Phoenix, Arizona
Santa Fe, New MexicoAustin, Texas
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma?
$200 Question – Grab Bag
These were the three “A’s” that changed
people’s minds to move and settle in Arizona.
$200 Answer – Grab Bag
What are Air Conditioners,
Aqueducts, and Automobiles?
$300 Question – Grab Bag
The Grand Canyon is one mile deep. It is this many
miles long.
$300 Answer – Grab Bag
What is 277 miles?
$400 Question – Grab Bag
This is a tiny town, home to about 450 Havasupais. You
can walk or ride a mule down eight miles to the bottom of the canyon.
$400 Answer – Grab Bag
What is Supai?
$500 Question – Grab Bag
This occurred on April 22, 1889.
$500 Answer – Grab Bag
What was the Guthrie,
Oklahoma Land Rush?
Final Jeopardy
The Colorado River flows through these seven states.
The Colorado River
Final Jeopardy Answer
What are Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New
Mexico, Nevada, and California?