What is the Dust Bowl?
Q: What is the Dust Bowl?
A: The Dust Bowl is a phrase used to describe prairie regions of the United States and Canada in the 1930s.
Q: Where did the Dust Bowl spread to?
A: The Dust Bowl spread from Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north, all the way to Oklahoma and parts of Texas and New Mexico in the south.
Q: What were the effects of the dust storms and droughts of the 1930s in the Dust Bowl areas?
A: The dust storms and droughts caused major damage to the Dust Bowl areas' economies, ecology, and agriculture.
Q: Was the Dust Bowl a natural disaster?
A: No, the Dust Bowl was the worst man made disaster in U.S history.
Q: How long did the many dust storms happen in the Dust Bowl?
A: The dust storms happened for many years.
Q: What caused the severe conditions of the Dust Bowl?
A: The severe conditions of the Dust Bowl were caused by a combination of poor farming practices, prolonged drought, and economic depression.
Q: Did the Dust Bowl affect only the United States?
A: No, the Dust Bowl also affected parts of Canada.
