Where in Texas?
The Mountains and Basins region is located in this part of Texas.
What is far western Texas?
This landform is a low area surrounded by higher land.
What is a basin?
The notes describe Mountains and Basins as Texas’s driest region and also its most this.
What is windiest?
Farmers use this process to supply water to crops through human-made systems.
What is irrigation?
Some settled Jumano communities built homes using these sun-dried earth or clay bricks.
What is Adobe?
This river forms the region’s southern and western boundaries.
What is the Rio Grande?
This relatively small, elevated landform has a flat top.
What is a mesa?
Some desert and basin areas receive less than this many inches of rain each year.
What is 8 inches?
This major city at Texas’s far western tip serves as an important trade hub.
What is El Paso?
This term describes people who move from place to place instead of living permanently in one location.
What is Nomadic?
This river forms the region’s eastern boundary.
What is the Pecos River?
This broad area of elevated, relatively flat land is much larger than a mesa.
What is a plateau?
Compared with the desert floor, higher mountain elevations generally receive more of this.
What is precipitation?
Visitors exploring mountains, desert landscapes, and parks support this industry.
What is tourism?
Jumano hunters traveled onto the plains to hunt this animal for meat and hides.
What is Buffalo?
The Mountains and Basins region lies within this desert.
What is the Chihuahuan Desert?
At 8,751 feet, this peak is the highest point in Texas.
What is Guadalupe Peak?
These two geographic conditions make much of the region difficult to farm.
What are scarce rainfall and rugged terrain?
An oil refinery processes this raw material into useful products.
What is crude oil?
Seasonal flooding along this river helped support crops in settled Jumano communities.
What is the Rio Grande?
This other name for the region means “beyond the Pecos River.”
What is Trans-Pecos?
This term describes an isolated mountain environment surrounded by lower, drier land.
What is a sky island?
Ranches often cover large areas because livestock need plenty of this in the dry environment.
What is grazing land?
Along with oil and natural gas, this mineral is extracted from the region.
What is sulfur?
The notes identify these two materials used in Jumano jewelry.
What are turquoise and copper?