The Dust Bowl Scavenger Hunt

Use the following website to answer the questions below and learn more about the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. http://ks.essortment.com/dustbowl_rcmk.htm

1. What brought on the “Great Depression” in 1929?

2. What was the treasure crop of the 1920s?

3. What machines helped the farmers plant more and more wheat?

4. Highlight the word “glutted” and right click on it. Click on Google Search, click on Online Dictionary. Look at the meaning of “glut the market”. What does “The market became glutted with wheat” mean?

5. What did the farmers sell their wheat for in 1930? What did they sell their wheat for in a year later? What was the difference in price?

6. Because of the drop in sale price, what happened to most of the farmers?

7. What happened to the land when the farmers plowed under the scrappy plains grass?

8. What happened each summer in the 1930s?

9. What did the people do to protect themselves from the dust and dirt when they went outside?

10. How many days of dust and drought were there in 1933?

11. When did the Dust Bowl get the notice of the rest of the country?

12. What was the day when the worst dust storm happened called?

13. What important things did farmers learn to do so that the problem with loosened soil would not happen again?