Vocabulary
An area that gets less than 10 inches of rain per year.
What is Desert.
This is the highest mountain range in the state and the highest point in Texas.
What is the Guadalupe Peak.
The ideal place for raising angora goats.
What is Edwards Plateau.
The most commonly know name for this geographic region.
What is the Midwest.
The landform that is shared by three geographic regions of Texas.
What is the Rio Grande.
A large area of flat land with gently rolling hills and few trees.
What is Plain.
One major city in this geographic region is Spanish for "the pass".
What is El Paso.
The Great Plains region can be compared to an area located in South America.
What is Pampas.
The main industry for the Grand Prairies area of the North Central Plains Region.
What is Raising Livestock.
The Coastal Plains region is part of a larger geographic region that the Gulf of Mexico helps define.
What is the Gulf Coastal Plains.
The industry that serves people who are visiting an area for pleasure.
What is Tourism.
The Mountains and Basins region of Texas is part of a larger region.
What is Basins and Range Province.
The railroad built in Amarillo help the economy by providing what industry.
What is cattle being sent by railroad to distant markets.
The cities with the largest population in this geographic region of Texas.
What is Fort Worth.
The major industry for the Piney Woods section of the Coastal Plains.
What is Lumber.
This marshy area has bays and slow moving streams.
What is Bayou.
Early settlers needed a landmark to help them find their way through the Guadalupe Pass.
What is El Capitan.
The second largest canyon in the united states that means "hard wood" in Spanish.
What is Palo Duro Canyon.
Abilene was founded in 1881 as a railway town along the Texas and Pacific Railway. What is the economy in Abilene now based on.
Houston is a port city on the Gulf of Mexico. This makes it a major center for what industry.
What is trade with foreign countries.
Dallas began is 1841 as a small frontier store.
What is Trading Post.
People have adapted to the rugged environment of this geographic region by ________.
What is Creating National Parks.
The four sections of the Great Plains region.
What is High Plains, Edwards Plateau, Toyah Basin, and Llano Basin.
The three small areas found within this geographic region.
What is the West Texas Rolling Plains, The Cross Timbers, and The Grand Prairies.
What is Padre Island.