What region do you live in

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Texas Regions
What region do you live in?
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Panhandle Plains
The northern most area of Texas is called the
panhandle. It is straight and narrow like the
handle of a pan with the broader area of the
state below it, like the bottom of a pan.
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• FACTS
• This region has mostly flat, grassy land or
  plains.
  
• This land is also called the Llano Estacado or
  Staked Plains.
  
• The land is mostly treeless and is on a high,
  flat plateau.
  
• The Red River, Pecos River and Brazos River are
  located in this region.
  

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Big Bend Country
West Texas has wide-open spaces with rugged
plateaus (plat-toes) and desert mountains. The
plateaus have short grasses and brush.

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• FACTS
• Big Bend Country is a region of extremes. The
  desert is dry and hot in the day and cool at
  night.
  
• The only mountains in Texas are found in Big Bend
  Country.
  
• The Rio Grande River runs along the southern part
  of the Big Bend Country.
  
• The Rio Grande is one of the longest rivers in
  North America. This region is called "Big Bend"
  because the Rio Grande River turns here in a big
  bend.

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Hill Country
The Hill Country of Texas was once considered a
sacred (holy) place for the Native Americans that
lived here long ago.
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• FACTS
• The Texas Hill Country is located in Central
  Texas.
  
• The land is rolling to hilly grassland.
• There are many springs and some steep canyons in
  this area.
  
• Central Texas was once a land of many springs.
  Human use and development has stopped the flow of
  many springs.
  
• In the central part of this region, there are
  large granite domes or uplifted areas. The most
  famous one is Enchanted Rock near Fredericksburg.

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South Texas Plains
Birdwatchers from across the world come to the
South Texas Plains to view the many birds along
the border and coastal areas.

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• FACTS
• The South Texas plains and brush country
  stretches from the edges of the Hill Country into
  the subtropical regions of the Lower Rio Grande
  valley.
• Much of the area is dry and covered with grasses
  and thorny brush such as mesquite and prickly
  pear cacti.
  
• The Rio Grande is a very long river. Where it
  flows through South Texas is called the lower Rio
  Grande valley.
  
• Palms, subtropical woodlands and even citrus
  trees grow here.
  

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Gulf Coast
The Gulf Coast stretches along the Gulf of Mexico
for hundreds of miles.

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• FACTS
• Cities like Corpus Christi, Galveston, and
  Houston are in the Gulf Coast region.
  
• Near the gulf waters you can see marshes, barrier
  islands, estuaries (where salty sea water and
  fresh river water meet), and bays
  
• As you travel west, you can see prairies and
  grasslands.
  
• Here you can find barrier islands along the
  coast, salt grass marshes surrounding bays and
  estuaries, a few remaining patches of tall grass
  prairies, scattered along the coast and tall
  woodlands in the river bottomlands.

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Pineywoods
Swamps are common, particularly in the southern
most area of the region which is called the Big
Thicket.

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• FACTS
• The East Texas region is primarily a thick forest
  of pines, hence the name Pineywoods!
  
• The terrain is rolling with lower, wetter
  bottomlands that grow hardwood trees such as elm,
  mesquite and ash.
  
• This region is home to a variety of plants and
  animals that like woodlands and shorelines. Among
  them are cottonmouth snakes, squirrels, rabbits
  and opossums.

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And YOU live ..
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Prairies and Lakes
Giant dinosaurs once roamed this region long,
long ago. Fossils of 17 different dinosaurs have
been found including Tyrannosaurus Rex!

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• FACTS
• The Prairies and Lakes region is in north central
  and central Texas
  
• Patches of woodland running in a north and south
  direction are sprinkled throughout this grassland
  prairie. The land is gently rolling to hilly.
  
• This region is sometimes called cross timbers
  because these patches of treed areas cross strips
  of prairie grassland.
  
• The soil here is rich, fertile, and black. Part
  of this region is called Blackland Prairie
  because of this.
  

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Bibliography
http//www.tpwd.state.tx.us/kids/about_texas/regio
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