Landforms
Technology
Farming
Cotton
Regions
100
A region in Texas known for its grassy plains and flat lands.
What is The Great Plains region?
100
A tool used by farmers to loosen up the soil and allow moisture to reach the roots of crops.
What is a plow?
100
Percentage of the Earth's surface that can be used for farming.
What is 3%?
100
The leading cash crop in the United States.
What is cotton?
100
Great Plains, Mountains and Basins, North Central Plains, Coastal Plains.
What are the regions of Texas?
200
The northern part of the region named for its shape. HINT: It's named after an item found in your kitchen.
What is the Pan Handle?
200
An invention that provides inexpensive water pumping without using electricity.
What is a windmill?
200
Methods farmers use to protect their soil from weathering and erosion.
What is soil conservation?
200
A region of the southern United States where cotton is the predominate cash crop.
What is the Cotton Belt?
200
Largest of the four Texas regions.
What is the Coastal Plains?
300
A flat grassy land.
What is a plain?
300
The inventor of the steel plow.
Who is John Deere?
300
Technological advances in farming.
What are the Steel Plow and the Windmill?
300
Nickname given to cotton because of it's high importance in Texas.
What is King Cotton.
300
Located in the Panhandle of Texas.
What is the Great Plains?
400
Few of these are found in the Great Plains region.
What are trees?
400
Animals used to pull a plow.
What are oxen and horses?
400
Rows of trees and shrubs that protect planted farmland from wind erosion.
What is Windbreak.
400
oil, meal, and hulls.
What are the products of cotton seed?
400
Far west Texas characterized by mountains and basins.
What is the Mountains and Basins region of Texas?
500
The Great Plains has a high elevation because it is located over this type of rock. HINT: this type of rock does NOT weather easily!
What is limestone?
500
The most important refinement of the American fan-type windmill.
What is the development of steel blades?
500
Method used by farmers to rotate crops to different soil in order to conserve nutrients. HINT: we read about this in Science!
What is crop rotation?
500
Accounts for approximately one-half of the cotton acres and roughly 40% of the total production of cotton in the United States.
What is Texas?
500
Allows Texas to be one of the most self-sufficient states in the country.
What is a range of natural resources?
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