Chapter 3 Regions of Texas Review 2

True or False: The landscape of the Rolling Plains includes small plateaus called caprocks.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

The small plateaus are called mesas.

True or False: Most of the Mountains and Basins region falls in the Blackland Prairie with hot temperatures and little rainfall.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

The Mountains and Basins region is hot and dry, but the Blackland Prairie is in the Coastal Plains region.

True or False: After the discover of oil at Spindletop in 1901, shipping and warehousing firms became an important part of the Coastal Plain's region economy.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Oil is one of the most important resources in the Coastal Plains region.

True or False: The location of Austin on the Rio Grande in the South Texas Plain region has become the main entry point for Mexican and American trucks transporting trade products.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Laredo is located on the border of Mexico and Texas in the South Plains, not Austin.

True or False: Before settlers and farmers came to the Great Plains region, Native Americans followed cattle herds and hunted them for meat and hides.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Native Americans followed bison (buffalo) not cattle herds.

highest elevations in the state

• Coast Plains

• Mountains and Basins

• Great Plains

• North Central Plains

Answer explanation

Elevation refers to height. The mountains in the Mountains and Basins region would have the highest elevation.

Spanish explorer Pedro de Castaneda described its High Plains and "spacious and level"

• Mountains and Basins

• Coastal Plains

• Great Plains

• North Central Plains

Answer explanation

The High Plains are in the Panhandle. Spacious means "big open space" and level means "flat".

cattle ranching dominates the economy

• Mountains and Basins

• North Central Plains

• Rolling Plains

• Great Plains

Answer explanation

Cattle (cows) ranching means raising and selling them for meat. Dominates means "majority or more than".

petroleum industry is a key economic activity

• North Central Plains

• Great Plains

• Rolling Plains

• Coastal Plains

Answer explanation

Spindletop is known for it's discovery of oil in 1901. Petroleum is a a main economic activity (how they make money) in nearly all of the Coastal Plains region.

peaches and pecans grown here help make Texas a leading producer of these foods

• Great Plains

• Rolling Plains

• Coastal Plains

• Mountains and Basins

Answer explanation

In the eastern part of the Rolling Plains, part of the North Central Plains, has more rainfall. This makes growing peaches and pecans possible.