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Dust Bowl Disaster
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English
6th Grade
02/21/2012

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Conservation
Definition
Efforts to preserve, protect, and restore natural resources
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Disasters
Definition
Very bad events that hurt people or damage property
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Drought
Definition
A long spell without rainfall that causes a water shortage
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Dust pneumonia
Definition
A disease of the lungs caused by breathing lost of dust
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Dust Bowl
Definition
A disaster that struck the USA in the 1930s
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Dust storm
Definition
A whirlwind that causes dust to fill the air
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Economic
Definition
Related to buying and selling of goods and services
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Erosion
Definition
The gradual wear on land surfaces by water, wind, or ice
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Flouted
Definition
Treated as meaningless
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Grasslands
Definition
Open areas of land that have grass for grazing animals
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Great Depression
Definition
The severe downturn of the U.S. and world economy from 1929 to 1939
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Great Plains
Definition
A flat, treeless region of the southern United States
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Income
Definition
Money that is received from work or another source
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Irrevocably
Definition
Cannot be taken back
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Migration
Definition
A movement from one location to another
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Precipitation
Definition
Moisture, such as rain, that falls from clouds
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Prosperity
Definition
The state of doing very well economically
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Recovery
Definition
The return of something to a normal state after a setback or loss
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Unemployed
Definition
Lacking a paid job, but able and available to work
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