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NOTE ... not all the instructions and details are on this page at the moment...August 19, 2005

Creating a PowerPoint Presentation of the Texas regions

  • Assignment will cover several separate weeks of work.

  • GRADE will be based on weekly assignments and the final project.  You must follow the instruction on the 'PowerPoint How To' (Power Point) page.

  • You will use your TEXT BOOK, ENCARTA, NOAA MAPS, and other assigned resources for this project. Specific instructions will be given in class.

  • FILE Name saved in your folder: Last Name First name 2005-2006 Texas Regions

PowerPoint Presentation example TEXAS. To make a presentation into a web product/presentation, you only need to save your work as HTML.

#1 Label Regions Label only the MAJOR region not the subdivisions using the colors on page 43

  • One Slide for Coastal Plains - page 53

    • Outline and color the area

    • Briefly describe major characteristics

  • One Slide for North Central - page 57

    • Outline and color the area

    • Briefly describe major characteristics

  • One Slide for Great Plains - page 65

    • Outline and color the area

    • Briefly describe major characteristics

  • One Slide for Mountains - page 69

    • Outline and color the area

    • Briefly describe major characteristics

#2 Land forms divisions

  • P. 22  G10

  • Mountains

  • Hills

  • Plateaus

  • Plains

#3 Land Forms

  • Guadalupe Mountains

  • Davis Mountains

  • Llano Estacado

  • Balcones Escarpment

  • Cap Rock Escarpment

  • Edwards Plateau

  • Gulf Coast Costal Plain

  • Chisos Mountains

  • Glass Mountains

#4 Water forms

  • Rio Grande

  • Pecos River

  • Canadian River

  • Red River

  • Sabine River

  • Guadalupe River

  • Nueces River

  • Colorado River

  • Brazos River

  • Trinity River

  • Lake Texana

  • Toledo Bend Lake

  • Falcon Reservoir

  • Amistad Reservoir

  • Choke Canyon Reservoir

  • Corpus Christi Bay

  • Galveston Bay

#5 Cities

  • Dallas

  • Fort Worth

  • Houston

  • San Antonio

  • Austin

  • El Paso

  • Amarillo

  • Lubbock

  • Odessa

  • Midland

  • Abilene

  • San Angelo

  • Texarkana

  • Tyler

  • Waco

  • Galveston

  • Brownsville

  • Harlingen

  • Laredo

  • McAllen

  • Wichita Falls

  • Sherman

  • Longview

  • Kilgore

#?? Elevations 27