Southwest RegionEconomy

Underground Resources

• Petroleum-found deep underground-used for heating oil, gasoline, paints, and plastics

• Kerosene-fuel oil burned in lamps and heaters

• These are very valuable resources to the SW region

Other resources

• Gold, silver, copper

• Cotton, sheep and cattle, trees, wheat

Fields of Plenty

• Lots of farmland• Sugar cane and rice grow here• Also wheat and barley• Vegetable-potatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, and lettuce

irrigation

• Using pipes or ditches to bring water to fields

• Some are worried about this because they feel there will not enough water for everyone

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amrCMakolKA

Grazing Fields

• OK and TX are very dry

• Not enough water for trees, but grass can still grow well

• These grasses field grazing animals-sheep, cattle, horses

Technology

• Computers and cell phone chips-a part to these items

• Computer technology industries

Computer technology

• Silicon-a natural material that is found in rocks and sand. This is used to make computer chips

Solar Energy

• Energy that comes from the sun!

• This region the sun is almost always shining

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4CTceusK9I

Ships and Spaceships

• TX -Major centers for shipping oil and other goods

• HOUSTON, TX-space ship-space program is located here

• Why located here? Clear skies for used of telescopes

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjkA1oBf6AM

RECALL IMPORTANT DETAILS….

• Why would solar energy be good to use rather than traditional form of energy such as oil and gas?

• When farmers bring water to their fields through irrigation, who else is affected?