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Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Facts and Main Ideas
Facts and Main Ideas
People and Places
100
a large area whose parts have something in common, such as natural resources or landforms
What is a region?
100
the hair of angora goats
What is mohair?
100
yellow
What is the English word for amarillo?
100
Guadalupe Peak
What is the highest mountain in Texas?
100
forested area in the Central Plains region
What is the Cross Timbers?
200
natural features that stand out from the area around them
What is a landmark?
200
what merchants sell to the public
What is retail?
200
rocky soil
What is the reason the Mountains and Basins region is not good for farming and ranching?
200
Hueco Tanks State Historical Park
What is a popular tourist spot near El Paso?
200
an important city in the Great Plains region
What is Amarillo?
300
low bowl-shaped landforms located between the mountains
What is basins?
300
a dry area that receives fewer than 10 inches of rain per year
What is a desert?
300
oil, gas, rich soil, helium, water for irrigations, and blue topaz
What are natural resources of the Great Plains region?
300
Gulf of Mexico
What is the large body of water that touches the Coastal Plains region?
300
a port of the Gulf of Mexico
What is the reason Houston became a major center for trade with foreign countries?
400
narrow islands between the ocean and the mainland
What is a barrier island?
400
a place where ships can dock to load or unload cargo
What is a port?
400
Grand Prairie Rolling Plains Cross Timbers
What is the geographic subdivisions of the Central Plains region?
400
wool, mohair, oil
What are two important resources from the Edwards Plateau area?
400
a landmark in the Mountains and Basins region?
What is El Capitan?
500
small frontier store
What is a trading post?
500
slow moving streams
What is a bayou?
500
fishing, farming, ranching, oil business
What are some ways people of the Gulf Coast region earn their living?
500
it covers almost 1/3 of the state
What is the area covered by the Coastal Plains region of Texas?
500
a barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico
What is Padre Island