Who is the first woman to take part in an American space mission?
100
North America
What is the continent on which Texas is located?
100
Through cleanup projects
What is how water quality in Texas is being improved?
100
environment
What is the surroundings of living things?
200
landforms
What is features of the Earth's surface?
200
Lady Bird Johnson
Who grew up in Texas with a love for nature? She led the movement to beautify Texas and the nation. She established a national wildflower research center.
200
Possible answers trees and rich soil
What is two renewable resources found in Texas?
200
Pecan trees, mockingbird, armadillo
What is three state symbols?
200
natural resources
What is resources that come from the earth?
300
escarpment
What is a line of steep slopes or cliffs?
300
Roy Bedichek
Who was a Texas naturalist who loved being outdoors. He observed his surroundings and asked questions about what he saw. He encouraged others to learn about nature.
300
In the south, along the Rio Grande
What is the area where the highest temperatures occur in Texas?
What is one mammal, one reptile, and one bird that live in Texas?
300
weather
What is the air at a certain time and place?
400
aquifer
What is an underground layer of spongy rock?
400
Isamu Taniguchi
Who was a landscape designer in Texas. He created a Japanese garden in Austin.
400
cotton, wheat, corn, and grain sorghum
What is four major Texas crops?
400
Some Texas borders are formed by natural features that are not straight. Rivers form wavy borders.
What is why some Texas borders are not straight lines.
400
vegetation
What is many types of plants and trees?
500
plateau
What is a highm level stretch of land?
500
John Biggers
Who founded the art department at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas in 1949?
500
Mountains, plains, plateaus, escarpments, hills
What is three types of landforms found in Texas?
500
Soil can be lost when wind and water sweep it away. It can also wear out when the same crops are planted year after year. Farmers may use fertilizer to add nutrients. They may also plant different types of crops.
What is why do farmers need to take care of their soil, and how they might do it?
500
natural vegetation
What is trees, grasses, flowers, and plants that grow without having people plant of care for them?