The Geographer's Tools
The study of the world, it's people, and the interaction between them.
What is Geography?
Information in the form of numbers.
What are statistics?
Groups of mountains.
What are ranges?
The southernmost subregion in Texas.
What is the South Texas Plains?
The speed of growth of a population.
What is growth rate?
Where a place is in relation to other places.
What is relative location?
This shows a sequence of events.
What is a timeline?
artificial lakes made with dams.
What is a reservoir?
The region with the driest climate.
What is the Mountains and Basins?
When rainfall much less than average.
What is a drought?
The movement of people.
What is migration?
This type of graph indicates a trend or pattern.
What is a line graph?
A smaller stream that flows into a larger stream or river.
What is a tributary?
The Red River cut a canyon into the Caprock in this subregion. They named the canyon Palo Duro Canyon.
What is the High Plains?
An increase of people living or working in cities.
What is urbanization?
Shared beliefs, traits, and values.
What is culture?
This chart shows cause and effect.
What is a causation chart?
Area of flat elevated land with sharp drops of one or more sides.
What is a plateau?
The center of the Texas and U. S. oil refining industry is in this subregion.
What is the Gulf Coast Plains?
Formations of natural gravel or rock that trap and hold rainwater underground.
What are aquifers?
The key to a map.
What is a map legend?
This shows how the parts of a whole are divided. It is also round.
What is a pie chart?
Cliffs.
What are escarpments?
The Rio Grande valley is in this subregion.
What are the South Texas Plains?
Rainfall on the ground or wind blowing away dirt might cause this.
What is erosion