1. How Well Do You Know Your State?

9. Olive Branch represents Friendship and Peace

11. San Jacinto Monument
Washington Monument

12. Rhode Island
Texas Counties

14. Why’s it Look Like That?

15. TEXAS AND ITS BORDERS
Texas has not always been the same shape that it is today.
Current borders: wars, compromises, agreements between nations
“Texas” was owned by many countries (area of Texas looked different in the past)

17. What else is different? Borders another country
Borders a large body of water

19. As you move from east to west, precipitation decreases
As you move from east to west, precipitation decreases. As you move from west to east, precipitation increases.

20. Climate- patterns of weather over a long period of time
Includes: *WIND DIRECTION * TEMPERATURE * PRECIPITATION

22. Due to its large size, Texas has several different climates.
FUN FACT!
Texas ranks first in tornado occurrence with an average of 124 per year.