What are plains, Barrier Islands, and the Balcones Escarpments?
100
The two distinct Plains Regions that the Great Plains are broken into.
What are the Edwards Plateau and the High Plains?
100
A long chain of mountains spanning vertically through the United States of America and into Canada.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
100
Escarpments that form the Northern and Southern boarders of the North Central Plains
What are the Caprock and Balcones?
100
One of the major reasons Texans are able to produce large amounts of different types of crops
What is fertile soil?
200
A city which acts as a harbor allowing trade from around the world to enter and leave
What is Houston?
200
The two major types of natural climates in the Great Plains
What are grasslands and savanna?
200
Minerals such as limestone, copper, salt, sulfur, talc, shale, clay and wind
What are major resources of the Mountains and Basins region?
200
One of the major industries in the North Central Plains where cattle are raised to be sold for profit
What is ranching?
200
One of the major reasons Texans are able to raise so many cattle all at once
What are grasslands?
300
One of the major food industries that is specific to this area in Texas
What is Fishing?
300
An underground lake
What is an aquifer?
300
A source of renewable energy that comes from spinning turbines
What is wind power?
300
The major military installment in the North Central Plains
What is Ft. Hood?
300
A major industry that produces hundreds of billions of dollars worldwide and is vital to everyday actions such as driving cars
What is oil?
400
The two major Universities found in this region in Texas
What are UT and A&M?
400
A region through the central United States of America that is prone towards tornados
What is Tornado Alley?
400
A farming technique that redirects water in order to supply it to crops
What is irrigated farming?
400
One of the major types of manufacturing that occurs in the North Central Plains
What is aircraft manufacturing?
400
A non-renewable form of energy that can be used, in some cases, in place of oil such as cooking and heating
What is natural gas?
500
The major source of economic activity based around the beaches of Texas
What is a Tourism?
500
A specific type of cattle that is often tied to Texas grasslands
What is a longhorn?
500
Three states and a nation that boarder this region
What are California, Arizona, New Mexico and Mexico?
500
The two major landforms in the North Central Plains
What are plains and escarpments?
500
A major source of money for Texans in the South-Eastern quadrant of Texas which helps attract visitors from across the state and the nation to visit and spend money