Physical Geography
Marks Louisiana's southern boundary
The average weather of a place over a long period of time
What is climate?
Known for soil that is reddish and was deposited by the river’s floods.
What is the Red River Valley?
The river defines the upper eastern boundary between Louisiana and Mississippi.
What is the Mississippi River?
Avery Island is famous for this.
What is Tabasco Sauce?
Three states that border Louisiana
What are Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas?
Matter that settles to the bottom of liquid.
What is sediment?
The climate in the state of Louisiana.
What is humid subtropical?
Area of land that drains into tributaries and eventually larger rivers.
What is a drainage basin?
Geographic formations found in Louisiana’s salt marsh.
What are salt domes?
The highest point in Louisiana.
What is Driskill Mountain?
Where the river meets the sea and freshwater mixes with saltwater.
What is an estuary?
Another name for the Flatwoods.
What is Piney Woods?
This river defines the lower eastern boundary between Louisiana and Mississippi.
What is the Pearl River?
The lowest part of a river basin and may be thought of as a seasonally flooded forest.
What is a swamp?
The shallow natural lake that is a tidal lagoon connected to the Gulf of Mexico.
What is Lake Pontchartrain?
The highest part of the Terraces region
What are the blufflands?
Paths the Mississippi River takes to the Gulf of Mexico (also called the delta)
What are passes?
Cleared in the 1830s for navigation; the Army Corps of Engineers controls the flow of Mississippi River water into this river
What is the Atchafalaya River?
Found only along a coast and is the transition area between land and water.
What is the Marsh Region?
The three parts that make up the Mississippi Floodplain Region.
What are passes, natural levee, and swamps?
Formed when a river changes course leaving behind water-filled bends
What are cut-off lakes?
The decade did Nutria begin to appear in Louisiana.
What is the 1930's?
This river separates Louisiana from the southwestern border.
What is the Sabine River?
The name for a waterway that ranges in size from short and shallow to long and navigable.
What is a bayou?