Texass Four Regions

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Texass Four Regions

• By
• Rush Hemphill

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Texass Different Regions

• 1. The Central Plains
• 2. The Great Plains
• 3. The Coastal Plains
• 4. The Mountains and Basins

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The Central Plains

• It has The Grand Plains, The Cross Timbers, and
  The Rolling Plains.
• Crops
• Cotton, Corn, and other Grains.
• Animals
• Beef cattle, sheep, goats, hogs, chickens,
  turkeys, and dairy cattle.

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The Central plains

• Grow
• Peaches, hay, peanuts, wheat, and sorghum.
• Resources
• Oil, Limestone, Sand, Gravel, Grass, and Clay.

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The Great Plains

• 3. The High Plains area is mainly in Panhandle.
• Resources
• Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Rich Soil.
• Produce
• Wheat, Cotton, and Sorghum.

• 1. The Cap rock Escarpment separates the Great
  Plains and the Central Plains.
• 2. The Great Plains Region is a high flat
  grassland.

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The Great Plains

• Industry
• Cattle, Ranching, and Mohair.
• 4. The Edwards Plateau lies just south of the
  High Plains.
• 5. Mohair comes from this area.

• Mohair is the hair of angora goats. It is spun
  into fine hair.
• 7. Oil is produced in the Permian Basin.
• 8. The Llano Basin is on the eastern edge of the
  Edwards Plato.

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The Great Plains

• 9. The Palo Duro Canyon, second Biggest Canyon in
  the U.S.A. Greater than 100 miles long, 6 miles
  wide, and 800 feet deep.
• 10. The Palo Duro means Hard Wood. Shrubs and
  trees grow in the Canyon.

• 11. It became Palo Duro State Park.
• Major Cites
• Amarillo-means yellow soil.
• Lubbock-the hub of the Plains, Texas Tech
  University, farmers.
• Sister Cities
• Midland-Odessa, large oil and gas industries.

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The Coastal Plains

• The largest of the Four Regions is one-third of
  the State.
• It runs along the Gulf of Mexico.
• Reaches Inland away from the coast, about 250
  miles long

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The Coastal Plains

• 4. Its made up of 5 smaller Regions
• Piney Woods,
• Gulf Coastal Plains,
• South Texas Plains,
• Post Oak Belt, and
• Blackland Prairie.

• Piney Woods
• 1. Part of a large forest that stretches from the
  Atlantic Ocean to Texas.
• 2. Large number industry and oil industry.
• 3. Cattle Ranching, fruit and vegetables.
• 4. The Big Thicket is a protected area.

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The Coastal Plains

• Gulf Coastal Plains
• Stretches from Port Arthur to Corpus Christi.
• 2. Most of Texass major rivers empty into the
  Gulf here.
• 3. There are slow moving streams.
• -Oil industry
• -fishing industry
• -cotton and sorghum

• South Texas Plains
• Reaches from San Antonio to Brownsville and from
  the Rio Grande to the Gulf.
• -dry with thorny brush
• -oil industry
• -family ranching
• -The famous King Ranch is here
• -lots of citrus fruits

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The Coastal Plains

• Blackland Prairie
• West of the Post Oak Belt.
• 2. Rich dark soil.
• 3. Grains and cotton.
• 4. Oil, gas, limestone, gravel.
• Major Cites
• Houston-major port city.
• San Antonio-major tourist industry.
• Dallas-major business center.
• Austin-State Capital

• Post Oak Belt
• Stretches from San Antonio to the NE corner of
  the state.
• 2. Rolling hills and prairie
• 3. Cotton, corn, and sorghum.
• 4. Oil, gas, and lignite soft soil.

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Mountains and Basins

• 1.Towering Peaks, Rocky Canyons, and flowering
  Cacti.
• 2. Guadalupe Peak is the highest point in
  Texas.-8,749 feet.
• 3. Dry Rocky soil.
• 4. Places, Big Ben National Park, Guadalupe
  Mountains National Park, McDonald Observatory,
  and The Davis Mountains.

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Mountains and Basins

• 5. Animals
• Mountain Lions, Peregrine Falcons, Rattlesnakes,
  and Deer.
• 6. El Paso is the only Major City in a different
  Time Zone.
• 7. El Capitan is a Natural Land Mark.

• I hoped you liked the information I got and my
  report.
• Rush Hemphill