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The Coastal Plains Region
The North Central Plains Region
The Great Plains Region
Mountains and Basins Region
Key Terms
100
This is the most populated region in Texas.
What is the Coastal Plains?
100
This is the largest city in this region.
What is Fort Worth?
100
The Great Plains is a very ___ area.
What is dry?
100
These are saucer-shaped depressions.
What are basins?
100
This is the wearing away of the earth's surface by wind, water, ice, and gravity.
What is erosion?
200
Name 3 of the major cities in this region.
What is Dallas, Austin, Pasadena, San Antonio, Houston, Corpus Christi, Galveston, Victoria, Brownsville, and Laredo.
200
Name the 3 geographic subsections of this region.
What is Cross Timbers, Grand Prairie, and The Rolling Plains?
200
This is what you call a long period of less than normal precipitation.
What is a drought?
200
This is where most people in this region live.
What is El Paso and along the Rio Grande?
200
This is a product made from petroleum and natural gas..
What is petrochemical?
300
This is the first large oil discovery in this region.
What is Spindletop Field?
300
This is the most important economic activity in the Grand Prairie.
What is agriculture?
300
Name 3 geological subsections that lie within this region.
What is Edwards Plateau, Llano Basin, and High Plains?
300
This is the mountain system this region is a part of.
What is the Rocky Mountains?
300
This is a flat top hill, smaller than a mesa.
What is a butte?