Texas Geography
The feature and characteristics that give an area its own identity or personality
Place
Name three types of tools do geographers use.
Maps, charts, grids, etc.
What are the four regions of Texas?
Coastal, Central and Great Plains, and the Mountain and Basins region.
What city is the Alamo located in?
San Antonio
Graph that uses bars or wide lines to compare data visually.
Bar Graph
Physical location of a place is
absolute location
What is a spherical representation of earth.
a globe.
What region is the Alamo in?
Coastal plains
Surroundings that include physical, social and cultural conditions.
Environment
What is the state flower?
Bluebonnet
The linking of people and places through travel and communication.
Movement
A graph that shows how data changes over time.
Line Graph
What is the location of a place in relationship to other places?
Relative location.
The position of a place compared to another.
Relative Location
What is state small mammal?
Armadillo
The study of how and why people , things and ideas is
Movement
What is geography?
The study of connections between people and earth.
Areas that share common characteristics are
regions
A Steep Slope or cliff
Escarpment
A crack in the earth's surface cause by moving plates.
Fault Line
Geography is the
study of earth.
Large area of land that is flat or almost flat.
Plain
An area that is unified by some feature and/or characteristics
Region
Dry period of little or no rain.
Drought
A layer of rock or gravel that absorbs rainfall and keeps it flowing underground
Aquifer