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Louisiana's Regions
Chapter 2
Question | Answer |
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Where is the Mississippi Floodplain located? | parrellel to the Mississippi River |
Where are natural levees, swamps and passes located? | Mississippi Floodplain |
Which area of the Mississippi Floodplain has willows, cottonwood, sycamore, oak, hickory, and pecan trees? | Natural Levee |
What two types of flora does the swamp of the Mississippi Floodplain have? | cypress and Spanish moss |
What type of flora do the passes of the Mississippi Floodplain have? | marsh grass |
What is flora? | plant life |
Where are Terraces located? | multiple locations in northeast and southwest Louisiana and Florida Parishes |
What are the three geographical regions of the Terraces Region? | The Blufflands, The Praries, and The Flatwoods |
What do the Blufflands look like? | natural levees, high vertical bluffs |
Which geographic feature looks like a flat, giant table top? | The Prairies |
What do The Flatwoods look like? | forrests |
What type of flora does The Blufflands have? | magnolias, dogwood, holly, ash, oak, ferns, green mosses |
Which area of the Terraces has grasses, broom sedge, water grass, switch grass? | The Pariries |
What type of flora do The Flatwoods have? | mixed pine, wire grass, palmetto |
Which region borders the Red Rover as it flows from the northwestern corner of the state to central Louisiana? | Red River Valley Region |
What geographic features does the Red River Valley have? | natural levees, fertile red soil |
What region has flora such as sweet gum, cotton wood, willow, and sycamore, some cypress, tupelo gum, and swampy oak | Red River Valley Region |
Where is the Hills Region located? | Northern Louisiana and the toe of the boot in the southeastern part of the state |
What are the geographical features of the Hills Region? | Sabien Uplift (Dolet Hills); Nacogdoches Wold, Kistachie Wold, Driskill Mountain |
What type of flora does the Hills Region have? | oak, hickory, ash, sweet gum, pecan, longleaf pine trees |