Use the map to fill in the correct
answers.
Mountains and Basins _____D____
North Central Plains ___B_____
Great Plains ___C_____
Coastal Plains __A________
What region of Texas would a visitor find Big Bend National Park and the city of El Paso?
Mountain and Basin
What region of Texas has the largest urban and cultural centers?
Coastal Plains
What region of Texas has the highest in elevation, very dry, with deep canyons cut by rivers?
Mountain and Basin
What region of Texas contains the Piney Woods, Post Oak Belt, and the city of Houston?
Coastal Plains
What is a common characteristic that all the regions of Texas share?
They are all suited to farming and ranching
The Coastal Plains of Texas is set off from the western regions by a steep cliff called_________?
Balcones Escarpment
Label the cities
A._____Dallas________________
B. _____Houston____________________
C. ____Austin_________________
D. ______Ft. Worth____________
E. _______El Paso___________________
Label the rivers
1. ____Brazos__________________
2. _____Red____________________
3. _____Trinity________________________
4. ____Rio Grande____________________
5. _______Colorado____________________
What reasons account for the development of cities?
Water resources, food, and other elements to make a livable area.
What do the physical features of the Great Plains and the Gulf Coastal Plains have in common?
Both have plains
Compare the physical environment of the Coastal region of Texas with the physical environment of
the Mountain and Basin region?
CP= marshes, coastal plains, rivers, piney woods, hot humid and raining
MB= Mountains, basins that are flat, few rivers, very little vegetation, hot dry air, cold nights
If you travel from sea level in east to the mountains of west, crossing the state of Texas, what
happens?
You move from sea level, lower elevation to mountain level or higher elevation
What are the physical features or common characteristics of the land in the North Central Plains?
NCP= many rivers, floods easy, deep canyons, vast plains, rolling hills, plateaus and mesas in the
canyon areas
Why do Historians divided the past into eras?
It makes study of eras easier.
What can be said of the all American Indian groups in Early Texas and the environment?
The natives used the environment with the least possible destruction.
Caddo:farmers::Jumanos:___Traders___
In which region of Texas did the Jumano live?
Mountain Basin
The American Indians pictured in the painting most likely were native of which region of Texas? What
clues did you use to determine the region?
Great Plains region, in the picture they are in camps with tipis and buffalo skins are stretch out, the
view is vast empty plain.
In which region of Texas did the Comanche live?
They lived in both the NCP and the GP, however, they spent most of their time following buffalo in the
great plains.
While the Caddo lived in ______East, Piney Woods______Texas, they were still located in the
___Coastal Plains________ where fishing was a major way of life.
How were the Coahuiltecans similar to the Karankawa?
Nomadic, along the gulf coast, hunter gathers, fishers
What similarities did the Kiowa and the Apache share?
Both plains tribes, nomadic, followed buffalo, rode horses
Compare the Plains Indians to the Puebloan Indian. How were they the same and how were they
different? Puebloans: traders, farmers, lived in the MB region, oldest established native group in Texas, adobe
houses Plains: hunters and gathers, fisherman, some farmed, some nomadic, portable houses, buffalo, deer