1. Texas
Geography

2. Plains Plains are flat areas that do not have trees.
An example in Texas is the South Texas Plains between San Antonio and Mexico.
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3. Rivers A river is a stream of water bigger than a brook or a creek.
An example of a river in Texas is the Brazos River.
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4. Lakes A lake is a large body of standing water.
An example of a lake in Texas is Lake Ray Roberts.
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5. Valleys A valley is an area of lowland between hills or mountains.
An example in Texas is the Rio Grande Valley.
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6. Hills
A hill is a rounded piece of land that is smaller than a mountain.
An example in Texas is the Hill Country in central Texas.
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7. Mountains
A mountain is a piece of land that comes to a point called a summit.
An example in Texas is the Guadalupe Mountains.
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8. 6 Geographical Questions
Location
Place
Regions
Human-Environment Interaction
Human Systems
Physical Systems

9. Location – Where is it?
Absolute Location – The exact location of a place on the earth’s surface
Relative Location – The location of a place in relation to other places
The Absolute location and Relative location of Texas affect it in many ways – How has Texas’ relative location to Mexico affected it?

10. Latitude and Longitude

11. Place – What is it like?
Place refers to the physical and human characteristics of a location
Physical Characteristics include:
Landforms, Climate, plants, animals
Human Characteristics include:
Language, Religion, Architecture, Music, Politics, ways of life

12. Regions – How does it compare to other places?
Geographers divide areas into regions in order to better study them.
Regions are places that are united based on common characteristics
Regions can be based on physical, human, business and other characteristics

13. 4 Natural Regions of Texas

18. Human Systems Movement - How people move through the environment
Cultural Diffusion - new ideas brought by migrating people become widely accepted.
People bring ideas and goods with them when they move from one place to another.

19. Sizing Up Texas Second largest U.S. State
The area of Texas is 267,277 square miles
Some parts of Texas are closer to the capitals of other states than to Austin.

20. Sizing Up Texas Texas is the size of all of these states combined:
New York Pennsylvania
Ohio Illinois
Connecticut Rhode Island
Massachusetts Vermont
New Hampshire New Jersey
Maine 20

21. Sizing Up Texas
El Paso, Texas is closer to the Pacific Ocean than to Houston.
Some students in Texas live 4 hrs from the nearest school
How could these geographic facts affect Texas? 21