Maps, Globes and Landforms
This sphere shows the Earth’s surface most accurately but is hard to carry around.
What is a globe?
Capital of Texas.
What is Austin, Texas
The exact spot of a place on Earth using latitude and longitude.
What is absolute location?
The plant life of an area.
What is vegetation?
A huge flat region of grasslands with few trees, stretching across the Texas Panhandle.
What are the Great Plains?
Flat areas that rise above surrounding land.
What is a plateau?
This main line of latitude circles the Earth at 0° and divides it into Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This describes where a place is compared to something else.
What is relative location?
hese Native people lived along the Gulf Coast and used dugout canoes for fishing.
Who are the Karankawa?
This Texas region includes the Rio Grande Valley and coastal areas.
What is the Coastal Plains?
The theory that the Earth’s surface is divided into a number of plates that float independently over hot liquid rock, forming new land patterns and causing earthquakes
What are plate tectonics?
This important meridian at 0° longitude divides the Earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Lines that run east–west and measure north or south of the Equator.
What is latitude?
This Native group was known for growing corn, beans, and squash.
Who are the Caddoes?
This region has mountains, desert, and little rainfall, located in far West Texas.
What are the Mountains and Basins?
The average weather of a place over a period of 20 to 30 years
What is Climate?
The direction opposite of north on a compass rose.
What is south?
Lines that run north–south and measure east or west of the Prime Meridian.
What is longitude?
The Karankawa lived near the coast, while the Caddoes lived here.
What is East Texas?
This region has rolling hills, grasslands, and is good for ranching.
What are the North Central Plains?
The customs, ideas, beliefs, and skills of a people.
What is culture?
The main, 0° line of longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Another word for a line of longitude.
What is a meridian?
The Caddoes greeted these European explorers when they entered East Texas.
Who are the Spanish?
An example of physical geography.
What are mountains, hills, trees, rivers, etc.