study of physical and human characteristics of a place or region
What is geography
100
This is the number of regions in Texas
What is 4
100
14 major rivers in Texas
What is the number of major rivers in Texas?
100
Areas of flat, elevated land that drop sharply on one or more sides
What is a plateau
100
lowland surrounded by higher land
What are basins
200
Learned system of shared beliefs, traits, and values
What is culture
200
I am the region with subregions in me such as Piney Woods, South Texas Plains, Gulf Coastal Plains, Post Oak Belt, and Blackland Prairie.
What is the Gulf Coastal Plains
200
I am the river that forms Texas' border to the east.
What is the Sabine River?
200
Use bars to represent information for comparison; have horizontal axis (line across the bottom) and vertical axis (line along the side)
What is a bar graph
200
the exact position of a place on Earth
What is absolute location
300
Increase of people living and working in cities
What is urbanization
300
I am the region with subregions in me such as Grand Prairies, Cross Timbers, and Rolling Plains
What is the Central Plains
300
I am the river that forms Texas' border to the west
What is the Rio Grande?
300
Used to find locations; 2 common reference maps: political (shows boundaries, borders, citites) and physical (shows landforms and bodies of water)
What is a reference map
300
cliffs
What are escarpments
400
Lines that run east and west and measure north and south of the equator
What is latitude
400
I am the region with subregions such as High Plains and Edwards Plateau.
What is the Great Plains
400
I am the river that forms Texas' border to the north.
What is the Red River?
400
artificial lakes that store water for drinking or irrigation
What is a reservoir
400
branch of geography that studies human populations; growth rate: speed of growth; birth rate: number of births per 1,000 people; death rate: number of deaths per 1,000 people; age distribution: portion of the population at each age
What is demography
500
Imaginary line that runs around the globe from the North Pole through Greenwich, England to the South Pole and back.
What is Prime Meridian
500
I am the region with subregions in it such as the Mountains and Basins
What is the Intermountain Basins and Plateau
500
Rio Grand to the west, Mississippi River to the east, and Gulf of Mexico to the south
What is where all rivers in Texas flow into
500
largest underground water source in the state; stretches from West Texas north to North Dakota