Social Studies, Part 12

Question 1: Discuss the geography of Texas.

Answer 1: Occupying about 7 the Gulf Coastal Plains, Interior Lowlands, Great Plains, and Basin and Range Province. This has been cited as the difference between human geography and physical geography. Some regions of Texas are associated with the South (primarily East Texas and North Texas), while other regions share more similarities with the Southwest (primarily West Texas and South Texas). Even the northwestern part of the state seems to have more in common with parts of the United States (Kansas and Nebraska) that are considered midwestern and never southern. The size of Texas prohibits easy categorization of the entire state wholly in any recognized region of the United States.

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Question 2: What is the Climate in Texas?

Answer 2: Continental, Mountain, and Modified Marine are the three major climatic types of Texas, with no distinguishable boundaries. Modified Marine, or subtropical, dominates the majority of the state. Texas has an annual precipitation range from 60.57 inches in Jasper County, East Texas, to 9.43 inches in El Paso. The record high of 120 °F (49 °C) was reached at Seymour on Aug. 12, 1936, and Monahans on June 28, 1994. The low also ties at -23 °F (-31 °C) in Tulia on Feb. 12, 1899, and Seminole on Feb. 8, 1933.Most of Texas is under direct threat from drought, heat, hail, high winds, flash floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes. Select areas occasionally suffer from dust storms, river floods, snow and ice. Amarillo has the highest average wind speed in Texas at 14.3 mph (23 km/h).

Question 3: Discuss the geography of Texas. (part two)

Answer 3: By residents, the state is generally divided into North Texas, East Texas, Central Texas, South Texas, and West Texas, but according to the Texas Almanac, Texas has four major physical regions: Gulf Coastal Plains, Interior Lowlands, Great Plains, and Basin and Range Province. This has been cited as the difference between human geography and physical geography, although the fact that Texas was granted (and retains to this day) the prerogative to divide into as many as five U.S. states may be a historical motive for Texans defining their state as containing exactly five regions.Some regions of Texas are associated with the South more than the Southwest (primarily East Texas and North Texas), while other regions share more similarities with the Southwest than the South (primarily West Texas and South Texas). Even the northwestern part of the state seems to have more in common with parts of the United States (Kansas and Nebraska) that are considered midwestern and never southern. The size of Texas prohibits easy categorization of the entire state wholly in any recognized region of the United States; geographic, economic, and even cultural diversity between regions of the state preclude treating Texas as a region in its own right.

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