Focus 1:
The Land and People of Texas
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Final
Jeopardy
Texas Land
and Water
Texas
Geography
Texas
Climate
Vocabulary
Texas Plants
and Animals
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Name the seven
continents.
Australia, North America,
South America, Asia, Europe,
Antarctica, and Africa
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This is the only state
larger than Texas.
Alaska
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What are the four
states that border
Texas?
Louisiana, Oklahoma, New
Mexico, and Arkansas
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The number of
continents on our
world.
7
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What country borders
Texas?
Mexico
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What is a name for strong
chilly winds with blasts of cold
air that quickly lower the
temperature ?
Blue Northers
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Rain, sleet, snow, and
hail are all types of
what (Spell your
answer)?
Precipitation
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What is the amount of
moisture in the air?
Humidity
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Which Texas city receives
more annual rainfall:
Amarillo or Houston?
Houston
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The measure of how hot
or cold something is?
temperature
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Smaller rivers, streams,
creeks, or bayous that
flow into a larger river?
tributaries
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A long, steep rock wall
that separates land
regions.
escarpment
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A word meaning half of a
sphere?
hemisphere
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A border, or outside
edge of a place or a
country.
boundary
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Another word for a creek
or stream.
bayous
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The mountain lion, coyote,
prairie dog, jackrabbit, and
burrowing owl are all from
this region of Texas.
High Plains
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This animal lives in
marshes, can be more than
12 feet long, and can weigh
500 pounds or more.
alligator
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The land on which
Houston stands was
once what kind of land
form?
Marsh
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This is a strip of land along
the eastern border of Texas
that has forests of pine
trees.
Piney Woods
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A tree like bush with
long roots that search
for water and can grow
up to 60 feet high.
mesquite
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What rivers in Texas form
borders between Texas and
neighboring states?
Rio Grande River, Red
River, and the Sabine
River
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What are the four
natural regions of
Texas?
Gulf Coastal Plain, Central
Plains, Mountains and Basins,
and the High Plains.
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What is the height and
name of Texas’s
highest peak?
Guadalupe Peak
8,749 ft.
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We live in what natural
region of Texas?
Gulf Coastal Plain
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A group of connected
mountains.
Mountain range
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Final Jeopardy
List the four largest
cities in Texas and
give at least one
reason that people
live in these cities.
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