Texas Geography is: The study of Texas Geography is: The study of Texas and the people who live in Texas and the people who live in it. it. Texas Landforms : Texas has mountains, plains, valleys, rivers, plateaus, escarpments. Texas Climate is the average weather of a location. Texas is so large it has more than one climate! Resources : soil, plant & animal life, water timber, grass, oil and gas, rock, sand, etc.: (What we need to survive!)
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Texas Geography is: The study of Texas and the people who live in it. Texas Landforms: Texas has mountains, plains, valleys, rivers, plateaus, escarpments.
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Texas Geography is: The study of Texas Texas Geography is: The study of Texas and the people who live in it.and the people who live in it.
Texas Landforms: Texas has mountains, plains, valleys, rivers, plateaus, escarpments.Texas Climate is the average weather of a location. Texas is so large it has more than one climate!Resources: soil, plant & animal life, water timber, grass, oil and gas, rock, sand, etc.:(What we need to survive!)
Geography (Landforms, Climate, Resources) affects how we live:
What we eat,
what we wear,
what kind of tools we use,
what kind of house we live in,
how we travel.
A Comanche CampDrawing by:James E. Taylor
AbsoluteAbsolute Location: absolutely Location: absolutely where you are!where you are!
• Lines of longitude: run north and south & are called meridians. (from Pole to Pole)
• Lines of latitude: run horizontally around the earth east to west. (Equator)
• The Earth is divided into hemispheres: Northern and Southern, but also Eastern and Western. N W E
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• Absolute location: Exact location on the Earth by latitude and longitude.– Example: Tyler is located at ____degrees
___latitude and ____degrees ___ longitude
• Relative location: The location of one place in relationship to another location.– Houston is south of Tyler.
Resources: what we need to liveResources: what we need to live
Cause---
• People use resources to live: for food, shelter, clothing, tools
Effect---• Resources can be
depleted• Pollution
American Indians valued the landand its resources.Do we value the land and resources today?