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Texas Regions

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

If you travel across Texas from west to east, how does the elevation change?

a)

It does not change

b)

It gets lower

c)

It tends to get higher

d)

It rises sharply then lowers

2.

A plateau is a tableland that has steep cliffs

a)

True

b)

False

3.

The Cap Rock Escarpment and the Balcones Escarpment are both in the Great Plains region. What are escarpments?

a)

rolling hills

b)

tall canyons

c)

steep cliffs

d)

plains

4.

What is climate?

a)

the height of land above sea level

b)

planting different crops in the same soil each year

c)

a shelter made of tanned hides

d)

the weather over certain years

5.

Where is the largest city in Texas located?

a)

In the Coastal Plains

b)

In far western Texas

c)

on the border of Mexico

6.

What regions has the LEAST amount of rainfall?

a)

Coastal Plains

b)

Mountains and Basins

c)

North Central Plains

d)

Great Plains

7.

"Tornado Alley" is part of what two regions?

a)

Coastal Plains and North Central Plains

b)

Great Plains and Mountains and Basins

c)

Great Plains and North Central Plains

d)

Coastal Plains and Mountains and Basins

8.

Which region is the Chihuahuan Desert located in?

a)

North Central Plains

b)

Coastal Plains

c)

Great Plains

d)

Mountains and Basins

9.

How have many of the people made a living in the Great Plains region of Texas?

a)

Teaching

b)

Fishing

c)

Banking

d)

Ranching

10.

Which region receives the MOST rainfall?

a)

Mountains and Basins

b)

North Central Plains

c)

Coastal Plains

d)

Great Plains

11.

Which of the following does NOT make up the economy of the Coastal Plains?

a)

Fishing

b)

Oil/Gas

c)

Shipping

d)

Farming/Ranching

12.

What type of landform has several deep valleys with deep sides?

a)

marsh

b)

plateau

c)

aquifer

d)

canyon

13.

Which of the following is a water storage area?

a)

landform

b)

basin

c)

reservoir

d)

marsh

14.

What are shapes that make up the Earth's surface?

a)

marsh

b)

landforms

c)

reservoirs

d)

basins

15.

Elevation is the lowest point of a place above sea level or ground level.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

Most of Texas' regions are plains. What kind of landform is a plain?

a)

land that is level

b)

underground water reservoirs

c)

low bowl shaped land surrounded by higher land

d)

tableland with steep cliffs

17.

Most of Texas' Great and North Central Plains regions are grasslands. What is a grassland?

a)

a deep valley with deep sides

b)

an area where the vegetation is naturally forests

c)

an area where the natural vegetation is grass

d)

an underground water reservoir

18.

Which region of Texas would include these characteristics?

-Gently rolling prairie with a few hills and mesas

-forests growing in river valleys

-Wichita Falls, Denton, Ft. Worth, and Abilene

a)

Coastal Plains

b)

Great Plains

c)

Central Plains

d)

Mountains and Basins

19.

Which region is the most populated?

a)

North Central Plains

b)

Coastal Plains

c)

Mountains and Basins

d)

Great Plains

20.

The Edwards aquifer is located in the Great Plains region, in the hill country. What is an aquifer?

a)

the height of the land above sea level

b)

an area where natural vegetation is grass

c)

underground water reservoir

d)

a small group of Indians