The Central Plains Region

These are the three smaller

regions that the Central Plains

Region is broken into.

What are the Grand Prairie, the

Cross Timbers, and the Rolling Plains?

This is the city where oil was accidentally found during a demonstration of oil drilling equipment

in 1981.

What is Abilene?

At this state park in Glen

Rose, TX, you can see dinosaur

footprints.

What is Dinosaur Valley State

Park?

This city that is home to many museums

and several universities is also

known as “Cowtown”.

What is Fort Worth?

This area of the Central Plains

Region is thought by many to be a natural

landmark.

What is Cross

Timbers?

This is a large area whose parts have

something in common, such as natural resources

or landforms.

What is a natural region?

This area of the Central Plains Region is better for ranching than farming because

of the rocky soil.

What is the Rolling Plains?

Examples of this are cattle, sheep,

goats, hogs, chickens, and

turkeys.

What is livestock?

This city was the end of the cattle drive trail

and where famers sold their cattle.

What is Fort Worth?

This area of the Central Plains region is a

grassy area where people raise livestock and grow cotton, corn,

and other grains.

What is the Grand Prairie?

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