Physiography - Answers description of nature, of natural phenomena, or of a class of objects
B - Answers dry climate
BS - Answers steppe
BW - Answers desert
C - Answers mesothermal in all years
CA - Answers mesothermal with occasional tropical years
CD - Answers mesothermal with occasional microthermal years
DC - Answers more than half microthermal years, occasional mesothermal years
f - Answers precipitation adequate at all seasons
w - Answers dry season in winter
d - Answers with occasional dry years
d' - Answers with occasional desert years
Temperature - Answers correlate with latitude
range of annual temperatures in texas - Answers 55 to 75
highest annual average temp is found - Answers Brownsville in the lower valley; Southernmost station in
the state
lowest annual average temp is found - Answers dalhart county in the northwest corner of the panhandle
How is precipitation measured? - Answers radar or satellites
Intermontane - Answers basin and plateaus
most diverse province because of the topography and geologic complexity - Answers intermontane
el paso - Answers big bend
physiography of intermontane - Answers north to south running mountains and basins; complex
geological phenomena
intermontane climate - Answers dry climates and mixed vegetation depending on the elevation
intermontane characteristics - Answers mountainous ecosystems
, desert ecosystems
Stockton plateau
salt basin
sand hills
"earth as a system" - Answers lithosphere
atmosphere
hydrosphere
biosphere
lithosphere - Answers innermost part of the earth
atmosphere - Answers gaseous realm that surrounds other spheres
hydrosphere - Answers realm of water which overlaps with the other spheres
biosphere - Answers realm of life
S curve line - Answers divides texas into two distinct sections
approximates a historical continental margin - Answers s curve line
s curve line represents which mountain range - Answers Ouachita Mountain Range
intermontane physiographic traits - Answers guadalupe range
big bend
davis mountains
upper rio grande valley
Guadalupe range(far western part of the state) - Answers new mexico border
highest point in texas - Answers guadlupe peak 8751 feet
first real national park in texas - Answers big bend
volcanic, McDonald observatory - Answers davis mountains
trans pecos alt. name - Answers far west texas
locating trans pecos - Answers everything west of the pecos river