Vocabulary Words, Rivers, Cities, and Regions
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| 450990162 | 4 Regions of Texas | Coastal Plains North Central Plains Great Plains Mountains and Basins | |
| 450990163 | Subregions of the Coastal Plains Region | Piney Woods Post Oak Belt Blackland Prairie Gulf Coastal Plain South Texas Plain | |
| 450990164 | Subregions of North Central Plains Region | Rolling Plains Cross Timbers Grand Prairie | |
| 450990165 | Subregions of Great Plains Region | High Plains Edwards Plateau Llano Basin | |
| 450990166 | Cities in Coastal Plains | Dallas Houston Austin San Antonio Corpus Christi Waco Galveston | |
| 450990167 | Cities in North Central Plains | Wichita Falls Ft. Worth Abilene San Angelo Arlington | |
| 450990168 | Cities in Great Plains | Amarillo Lubbock Midland Odessa | |
| 450990169 | City in Mountains and Basins | El Paso | |
| 450990170 | Plains | area of flat or gently rolling land | |
| 450990171 | Physical Geography | things that relate to the land | |
| 450990172 | Human Geography | things that relate to humans | |
| 450990173 | Subregion | smaller part of a geographic region | |
| 450990174 | Escarpment | cliff or abrupt break in the land | |
| 450990175 | Growing Seaon | numbe of days crops can grow in an area | |
| 450990176 | Steppe | vast, treeless plain | |
| 450990177 | Aquifer | underground water | |
| 450990178 | Census | counting the population every 10 years | |
| 450990179 | Trend | general movement toward change over time | |
| 450990180 | Absolute Location | exact position of something on earth | |
| 450990181 | Relative Location | position of a place described in comparison (or relationship to) another place | |
| 450990182 | Physical Environment | external surroundings and conditions in which something exists | |
| 450990183 | Landform | a feature of the Earth's surface such as a hill, vally, river, etc | |
| 450990184 | Region | geographical area characterized by similar features | |
| 450990185 | Reservoir | artifical lake where water is collected | |
| 450990186 | Climate | expected weather | |
| 450990187 | Precipitation | moisture that falls from the sky (rain, sleet, hail, etc) | |
| 450990188 | Physical Map | map that shows landforms, elevations, cities, rivers, etc | |
| 450990189 | Political Map | map that shows borders between states, counties, countries | |
| 450990190 | Physical-Political Map | map that shows both physical features and boundaries | |
| 450990191 | Balcones Escarpment | goes from Dallas to Del Rio; some parts in Coastal Plalins; some parts in North Central Plains | |
| 450990192 | Caprock Escarpment | in Panhandle; close to Lubbock | |
| 450990193 | What region/subregion did pink granite used to build Texas capitol building come from? | Great Plains Region: Llano Basin subregion | |
| 450990194 | What region/subregion has limestone in the rock? | Great Plains region: Edwards Plateau subregion | |
| 450990195 | Guadalupe Peak | highest peak in Texas; in Mountains and Basins region | |
| 450990196 | What region has most of largest cities in Texas? | Coastal Plains | |
| 450990197 | 3 Border Rivers and what border they form with Texas | Red River: border between Texas and Oklahoma Sabine River: border between Texas and Louisiana Rio Grande River: border between Texas and Mexico | |
| 450990198 | Caddo Lake | only natural lake in Texas; in Coastal Plains Region and Piney Woods subregion | |
| 450990199 | Edwards Aquifer | source of underground water for Texas Hill Country | |
| 450990200 | Canadian River | River in Panhandle of Texas | |
| 450990201 | Pecos River | river in Mountains and Basins region of Texas; far West Texas |
