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100
This is the name for the area of rugged terrain in the Edwards Plateau near the Balcones Escarpment.
What is the Hill Country?
100
This is a flat-topped hill, smaller than a mesa.
What is a butte?
100
This is the name for a twenty county urban area that serves as the major manufacturing and trade center in Texas.
What is the Metroplex?
100
The climate of the Mountains and Basins Region is almost always this.
What is very dry?
100
This is a dry period in which less than normal preciptation causes damage to crops.
What is a drought?
200
This subregion is home to thriving lumber businesses.
What is the Piney Woods?
200
This is a sunken area in a plateau found between mountain ranges.
What is a basin?
200
This is the center of Mexican-American culture in Texas.
What is San Antonio?
200
These two types of livestock are raised in the western part of the Rolling Plains because they survive on sparse vegetation.
What are sheep and goats?
200
This is a product made from petroleum or gas.
What is petrochemical?
300
This subregion is known for hardwood trees and the "Lost Pines".
What is the Post Oak Belt?
300
This is the wearing away of the earth's surface by water, wind, and ice.
What is erosion?
300
This is the home of the largest wool market in the U.S.
What is San Angelo?
300
The population of the Mountains and Basins region is best described as this.
What is very sparse?
300
This is soil that has been deposited by running river water.
What is alluvial soil?
400
This is the nickname for the northern portion of Texas that contains the highest point in the Great Plains.
What is the Panhandle?
400
This is the highest point in Texas.
What is Guadalupe Peak?
400
El Paso and Ciudad Juarez contain these that manufacture parts and products.
What are maquiladoras?
400
The Coastal Plains region has a warm humid climate because of its relative location to this.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
400
This is the top cash crop in Texas.
What is cotton?
500
This area is known for its citrus fruit industry.
What is the Lower Rio Grande Valley?
500
This is the southern boundary of the state of Texas.
What is the Rio Grande?
500
The land of the Llano Basin is lower than the Edwards plateau because of this.
What is erosion?
500
The cooler temperatures of the Great Plains are due largely to the region's high this.
What is elevation?
500
Farming is possible in the dry Great Plains because of new farming techniques and this.
What is irrigation?
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