Surviving the Dust Bowl Worksheet 4 (Global Physical Environment) 1. The Dust Bo
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Surviving the Dust Bowl Worksheet 4 (Global Physical Environment) 1. The Dust Bowl occurred during this decade in the 20th Century? (0.5 point) The 1930's 2. What crop is the focus of this documentary? (1 point) 3. What is the cycle of precipitation in the Southern Plains? (1 point) 4. How many acres of sod could be plowed in one day with a tractor? (1 point) 5. How many years did it take for one inch of topsoil to form in the Southern Plains? (1 point) 6. What five states are mentioned in the video as the heart of the Dust Bowl in the Southern Plains? (2.5 points) 7. What animal ate the remaining stalks of wheat and were clubbed to death by farmers during the Dust Bowl? (1 point) 8. April 14,1935 was called (1 point) 9. What illness as a result of the Dust Bowl and airborne dust greatly affected families, especially children? (1 point) 10. What percentage of farm families left the Southern Plains during the Dust Bowl? What Pacific-Coast state was the destination for many of these families? (1 point)Explanation / Answer
The Dust Bowl
Q1.Yes it was occurred during 1930’s, it was named to Great Plains in which the area was affected drought and severe winds caused by dust storms led to destroy of major vegetation in that region .
Q2. It was majorly concerned towards corn and soybeans as they were the staple foods
Q3.Most of the times it will be Diurnal cycle
Q4.Around 1 to 1.5 ha of land can be ploughed in the tractor within a day
Q5.It will be nearly about 400-500 years
Q6. Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico. Are the states mentioned
Q7.Cattle were prone to death during the dust bowl
Q8.It was known as Black Sunday
Q9.Some of the major are Dust Bowl were dust pneumonia, rickets, valley fever, and malnutrtion.
Q10 Over and above 40 percent of people migtated
Q11.Overall people from small villages are started migrate it to major city
Q12. The Last Man club was the name of the group
Q13. Hugh Hammond Bennett
Q14. Nearly around 15 percent
Q15. – High drought
-High temperatures
-Poor agriculture
-Srong winds
Q16. A great depression in Agriculture, because One hundred million acres of the Southern Plains were turning into a wasteland of the Dust Bowl
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