| A | B |
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| What happens when air becomes cooler and less able to hold moisture | moisture falls as rain |
| How the Balcones Escarpment was created | a giant earthquake millions of years ago |
| How geography explains the past | Explains why certain events occurred the way they did |
| What are the climatic effects of the Gulf of Mexico | Ocean breezes-destructive storms-rainfall |
| An example of a declining source of water that cannot be refilled | aquifers such as Ogallala Acquifer |
| Why cities in the West Texas mountains receives more rainfall than the nearby desert | Moisture-filled air moving up the mountains is cooled and cannot hold much water and the ater falls as rain |
| What happens when the cool air from the north combines with moist warm air from the Gulf of Mexico | Violent storms |
| How the middle latitudes get their name | they are halfway between the Equator and the North Pole |
| List the vegetation regions found in Texas | Forests-savannas-grasslands |
| What is cultural diffusion | people bringing ideas and culture from one place to another |
| What are human characteristics | language-religion-politics |
| Why seafood from some Texas bays are sometimes unsafe to eat | pollution |
| Why the Coastal Plains region in southeast Texas has a mild and wet climate | Gulf of Mexico |
| The natural vegetation of the Mountains and Basins region | Desert plains |
| What is erosion | wearing away of the earth's surgace by water-wind-and ice |
| What is the largest section of the North Central Plains | Rolling Plains |
| The use of most of the Texas lake water | irrigation |
| Which direction do almost all the rives in Texas run | Southeast |
| Define aquifer | springs underground water reservoirs |
| What carry water from the dry part of the state to the wetter southeast part | wrong way rivers |
| Define fault | a weak part of the earth's crust |
| Examples of physical system | volcanoes-glaciers-hurricanes |
| Define plain | mostly level area that may have low hills |
| Where does the Edwards Aquifer get water | Rain that falls in the Hill Country |
| Name the highest mountain range in Texas | Guadalupe |
| What divides the the Great Plains and Coastal Plains | Balcones Escarpment |
