Geo Chapter 4 Lesson 3

Mormon is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

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Dust Bowl is the name given to the southern Great Plains during the severe drought of the 1930s

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In the 1930s a severe drought caused

crops to fail in the Great Plains. The topsoil, the fertile soil that crops need to grow, turned to dust and blew away

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A major fault system called the

San Andreas Fault cuts through western California. It has caused several large tornados.

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In the Deepwater Horizon

disaster of 2010 dumped nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

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The aerospace industry makes vehicles that

travel in the air and in outer space.

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Many cities in the region are large ports.

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Los Angeles is a very important port on the Atlantic Ocean.

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Mobile, AL. is a port city.

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