Regions of Texas
What are the 4 regions of Texas?
What are the Coastal, N. Central, Mountains and Basins, and Great Plains
What is culture?
What is the customs, ideas, beliefs, and skills of a people?
What are landforms?
What are Earth's natural features?
What is Absolute Location?
What is a place with an exact location
What is a political map?
What is a map that show boundaries of countries, cities, and states
What region is known for farming?
What is the N. Central Plains
What are plateaus?
What are areas that rise above surrounding land
What is vegetation?
What is the plant life that grows in an area?
What is a place?
What is something described with both physical and human features?
What is a physical map?
What is a map that talks about the physical features of an area (mountains, rivers, etc)
What does the land look like for the Mountains and Basins?
What are scattered mountain ranges and flat desert basins?
What is physical geography?
What is the learning about land and its features?
What is human geography?
What is the learning about people and their ways?
What are people how they react to their environment?
What is how do people adapt and change their environment
What is a projection?
What is a way to transfer a curved map to a flat map
There used to be 5 regions of Texas, what was the 5th region called
What is the Cross Timbers
What are the names of longitude and latitude that dived the earth in half?
What are prime meridian and equator
What are the Great Plains?
What is a part of the US that has level land, hot summers, cold winters, and little rainfall
What are the two types of movement (what does each do)?
What are transportation (movement of people and goods) and communication (movement of ideas)
What is a Mercator Map?
What is a map that has distorted countries (ex: greenland looking the same size as south america)
What is the border of the of the Great Plains called?
What is the Caprock Escarpment
What is the Rio Grande Valley?
What is an area of Texas with rich soil that attracts farmers to grow crops
Who are a nomadic tribe of Texas who fished and that followed the migration of fish
What is a region?
What is an area of the world that has similar unifying characteristics
What is shown when you combine a physical and a political map?
What are boundaries, cities, landforms, lakes, rivers