The Four Regions of Texas



The Four Regions of Texas

|REGION |LAND |WEATHER |Cities |Native Tribes |VEGETATION |

|Coastal Plains |*Mostly level plains with some rolling hills |*30-50 inches of rain each year|* Houston |*Karankawa |*Coastal Prairie: rice and other crops |

| |*Slopes toward Gulf of Mexico |*Warm climate |*Dallas |*Caddo |*Piney Woods: pine forests |

| |*Along the coast: low and marshy | |*San Antonio |*Tonkawa |*Post Oak Belt and Eastern Cross Timbers: forests |

| | | |*Austin |*Wichita | |

| | | |*Texarkana |(Southwestern People | |

| | | | |and Western Gulf | |

| | | | |People) | |

|North Central Plains |*Mostly flat land with some rolling hills |*28-40 inches of rain each year|*Fort Worth |*Wichita |*Grand Prairie: cotton, wheat |

| |*Elevation decreases from west to east |*Hot in the summer and cool in |*Abilene |*Comanche |*Western Cross Timbers: forests |

| |*In southern region, buttes and mesas |the winter |*Denton |(Southwestern People |*Rolling plains: grasslands |

| | | |*San Angelo |and Plains People) |*Farming and Ranching dominate this region |

| | | |*Wichita Falls | | |

|Mountains and Basins |*Mountainous with plateaus |*10-18 inches of rain each year|*El Paso |*Tigua |*Desert plants, including cacti and mesquite |

|Region |*Scattered mountain ranges and flat desert |*Hot in the summer and cold in |*Presidio |*Jumano |*Some forests in the mountains |

| |basins |the winter | |*Concho | |

| |*Includes Guadalupe Peak | | |(The Puebloan People) | |

| |*Big Bend National Park | | | | |

| |*Pecos River and Rio Grande | | | | |

|Great Plains Region |*High Plains: rises elevation from east to |*Mostly arid |*Amarillo |*Kiowa |*Dry with few trees |

| |west; mostly flat; some deep canyons |*Hot in the summer; cold and |*Lubbock |*Comanche |*Broad grassland |

| |*Edwards Plateau: more hilly |sometimes snowy in the winter |*Midland |*Jumano |*Parts of this region have important farming areas|

| |*Llano Basin: 1,000 feet lower in elevation | |*Odessa |*Lipan Apache | |

| |than the Edwards Plateau | | |(The Plains People and | |

| | | | |The Puebloan People) | |

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