Impacts on Water Systems

Which Texas ecoregion would most likely have the most evidence of erosion by water?

• Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes

• High Plains

• Blackland Prairie

• Trans Pecos

This Texas ecoregion experiences little erosion due to its rich soil with much vegetation where trees are the main plant life.

• Piney Woods

• Coastal Sand Plain

• Rolling Plains

• Prairies

Weathering can have which of the following effects in Texas?

• Sediment reaching the coast

• Building of mountains in west Texas

• Breaking down of rocks such as at Enchanted Rock

• All the above

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Deposition can have which of the following effects in Texas?

• Rounding or sharpening rocks

• Forming sand dunes at the coast

• Breaking down rocks such as at Enchanted Rock

• All the above

Erosion can have which of the following effects in Texas?

• Moving the coastal shore line inland

• Building mountains in west Texas

• Breaking down Enchanted Rock

• All the above

What was the effect of overgrazing in the Trans Pecos?

• Increased erosion of the soil

• Change from a grassland to mountainous desert

• Plant life is scarce

• All the above

The landscape of the Texas Prairies has changed due to _____.

• periodic fires

• grazing of bison and livestock

• humans making cropland/farmland

• All the above

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In the Plains, soil erosion due to rain is lessened by ______.

• plenty of vegetation ground cover

• plowing and planting along curves

• efficient irrigation systems that use less water

• All the above

In the Plains, droughts reduce the amount of plants causing erosion from _____ to be worse.

• wind

• rain

• ice

• gravity

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The Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes are often exposed to tropical storms originating in the Gulf of Mexico. Which of the following are effects on the coastline?

• reshaped by high winds and waves

• eroded and covered by water

• shoreline moves landward

• All the above

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