Locating Texas
This is the continent Texas is a part of.
What is North America?
This is the large body of water that borders Texas.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
Resources that can be renewed or restored.
What are renewable resources?
Some examples are rain, sleet, snow, hail.
What is precipitation?
The states that border Texas, starting in the West are
What is New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Lousiana?
A long steep slope or cliff.
What is an escarpment?
Natural gas, oil, gypsum are examples of these.
What are nonrenewable resources?
This happens to the land when there is not enough precipitation.
What is drought?
Why are some borders straight and exact?
What are man made borders?
What are barrier islands?
A resource found in nature that can be useful to people.
What are natural resources?
Farmers use this to water their crops in dry climates.
What are irrigation systems?
Some borders are wavy.
What are borders made by rivers?
This is a level area higher that the surround land.
What is a plateau?
Shrimp, trees, pecans, fish are examples of this resource.
What are renewable resources?
Information and seawalls help protect people from this today.
What is severe weather?
Most Texans live on this landform.
What are plains?