Vocabulary
A long, steep slope or cliff
What is escarpment?
A storm with high winds and heavy rains that hits the coast.
What is a hurricane?
They use the water for agriculture or farming and daily use.
Why do some Texas communities use aquifers?
A storm with high winds and heavy rains that hits the coast.
What is a hurricane?
Texas is located in both of these hemispheres
What is Northern and Western?
The pattern of weather in a place over a long period of time
What is climate?
A storm with fierce, swirling funnel winds
What is a tornado?
The reasons settlers came to Texas
Texas has many natural resources like water, soil, animals, and weather.
How humans make up for using up some of our natural resources.
Plant new trees, try not to take too many resources like fish or shrimp, recycle materials
Texas is located in this country
What is the United States?
A fierce, swirling funnel of wind created by thunderstorms
What is tornado?
This extreme weather event is both cold and unlikely to occur in East Texas.
What is a norther?
Ways humans modified the environment
Building railroads, roads, bridges, resevoirs, cities, and factories
Fossil fuels, coal, oil, natural gas
Non-renewable resources
Texas is located in this region of the United States
What is southwest?
A natural or artificial lake used to reserve or store water
What is resevoir?
A long period of little to no rain in an area
What is a drought?
Problems with modifying the environment
Can pollute the air, land, and water, and destroy animal and plant habitats. Use up resources until they run out.
Examples of renewable resources
Trees, animals, water, etc.
The continent where Texas is located
What is North America?
A resource that can be restored naturally over time, such as a forest
Where you would most likely find the coldest temperatures.
The very southern tip, a coastal area, along the Rio Grande, high in the mountains
What is high in the mountains?
States have created these to help collect water in case of a drought.
Reservoirs
These were the renewable resources that brought settlers to Texas
Water, soil, animals
Creates a natural border between Texas and Mexico