Vocabulary
Regions
Physical Map
Political Map
Miscellaneous
100
An underground water reservoir.
What is an aquifer?
100
A body of water next to the Coastal Plains that affects the climate.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
100
An aquifer that is refilled each year by rainfall.
What is the Edwards Aquifer?
100
Pollution, deforestation, farming, and building dams are examples.
What is human-environment interaction?
100
The exact location of a place on the earth's surface.
What is absolute location?
200
Sudden, icy cold blasts of air
What is a norther?
200
The most populated region in Texas.
What is the Coastal Plains region?
200
Rivers that flow from the drier Northwest area to the wetter Southeast area
What are wrong-way rivers?
200
Landforms, climate, plants, and animals are good examples.
What is physical characteristics?
200
Comparing 2 points using a cardinal direction.
What is the relative location?
300
New ideas brought by migrating people become widely accepted.
Who is cultural diffusion?
300
A region that is part of the Rocky Mountain system.
What is the Mountains and Basins region?
300
The 3 natural vegetation regions found in Texas.
What are grasslands, forests, and savannas?
300
Language, religion, politics, and food are examples.
What are human characteristics?
300
An area united by one or more characteristics.
What is a region?
400
The study of the earth and its people.
What is geography?
400
The #1 cash crop in Texas.
What is cotton?
400
The southern boundary of Texas.
What is the Rio Grande?
400
The 2 most important mineral resources in Texas.
What are petroleum and natural gas?
400
The era we are studying.
What is Natural Texas and Its People?
500
A large-scale commercial farming business.
What is agribusiness?
500
The 4 natural regions of Texas.
What are the Coastal Plains, the North Central Plains, the Great Plains, and Mountains and Basins?
500
A long cliff that cuts across Texas in a great carving arc and marks the beginning of the Hill Country.
What is the Balcones Escarpment?
500
The key element to good population growth in a state.
What is good transportation?
500
A "Naturalist" who documented the Texas landscape.
Who is Roy Bedichek?
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