Regions
This is the region that has the highest elevation in Texas.
What is the Mountains and Basins Region?
The Red River, in North Texas, has made a deep cut in the Great Plains, creating this natural landmark.
What is the Palo Duro Canyon?
These Native Americans who lived in the Coastal Plains Region of Texas, are part of what are known as the Southeastern Cultures, were known for their farming techniques, such as crop rotation.
Who are the Caddo?
Slow-moving, swampy sections of a river or lake.
What are bayous?
Located in the Blackland Prairie, Dallas, Fort Worth, and other cities make up what is known as this type of metropolitan area.
What is a Metroplex?
This is the region with a "caprock" escarpment surface and is AKA the High Plains.
What is the Great Plains Region?
The Edwards Aquifer is located in central Texas, "recharged" by the drainage off the Edwards Plateau, and this other Aquifer is located in the northwestern part of Texas.
What is the Ogallala Aquifer?
This group lived a mostly nomadic lifestyle around what is now Northern Mexico and Southern Texas, which means they would make what is now Laredo a temporary home.
Who are the Coahuilltecan?
This term refers to how Native American groups got used to their environment to survive.
What is to Adapt?
Located along the Rio Grande (River), this number 1 inland port city in the US, where there were over $24 billion worth of exports, is right under your feet.
What is Laredo?
This is the lowest region in terms of elevation, at sea level.
What is the Coastal Plains Region?
This landform creates a natural border between Mexico and Texas (USA).
What is the Rio Grande (River)?
This group, the tallest of the Native Tribes that made Texas home, lived a semi-nomadic life moving from the coast of Texas to higher grounds, more inland.
Who are the Karankawa?
This term refers to how Native Americans, like we do today, messed with or changed their surroundings to make life better for themselves.
What is Human-Environmental Interaction?
This is what the northernmost part of the Great Plains Region is called.
What is the "Panhandle"?
Covered with grasses, shrubs, and small trees, this region is home to the subregions, the Grande Praires, the Cross Timbers, and the Rolling Plains.
What is the Central Plains Region?
This is the highest point in Texas and is located in this mountain range. (Name both)
What is Guadalupe Peak located in the Guadalupe Mountains?
This Native Culture is made up of tribes including the Comanche, Tonkawa, and Apache.
What is the Plains Culture?
An area with common physical environment defined by physical features.
What are Natural Regions?
This is the subregion in South Texas where citrus farming is part of the subregion's economy.
What is the Rio Grande Valley?
This is the national park located at the southernmost area of the Mountains and Basins Region.
What is Big Bend National Park?
These run almost the entire length of the Texas coast in the Gulf of Mexico.
What are Barrier Islands?
This tribe, part of the Pueblo Culture, used clay to make bricks called adobe to build their dwellings.
Who are the Jumano?
These are people who move from place to place.
What are Nomads or Nomadic?
This is the last major city you will drive through as you leave Texas at its westernmost point.
What is El Paso?