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Texas Trivia

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are the three subregions of the North Central Plains?
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

2. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
An object made or altered by humans
Horses - bison
Caddo Lake
2nd

3. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
An object made or altered by humans
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Cattle - sheep

4. Define a barter system.
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
El Paso
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

5. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
El Paso
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico

6. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
2nd
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

7. What does culture include?
Coastal Plains
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
A primary source is a document created at the time the event occurred. Letters - speeches - journals - newspaper articles - and photographes are examples of primary sources.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

8. How does elevation affect the climate?For every increase of _____ feet - the temperature drops about __ degrees
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
A primary source is a document created at the time the event occurred. Letters - speeches - journals - newspaper articles - and photographes are examples of primary sources.
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
An object made or altered by humans

9. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
El Paso
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Horses - bison

10. What is a primary source? Give examples. A primary source is a ___. L___ - s___ - j____ - n____ - and p___ are examples of primary sources.
A primary source is a document created at the time the event occurred. Letters - speeches - journals - newspaper articles - and photographes are examples of primary sources.
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Horses - bison

11. What is the largest city in Texas and what is the basis of its economy?
Houston -- Petrochemical
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
A primary source is a document created at the time the event occurred. Letters - speeches - journals - newspaper articles - and photographes are examples of primary sources.
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

12. Name the 4 of the tribes that were a part of the Plains culture.
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Blackland Prairie
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
El Paso

13. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in Texas.
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Blackland Prairie
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

14. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
Cattle - sheep
Buffalo are found in India - Asia - and Africa. Bison are found in America and have a large head and neck and humped shoulders. Also - a buffalo has 13 pairs of ribs - while a bison has 14 pairs of ribs.
Coastal Plains
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

15. Name the 4 of the tribes that were a part of the Plains culture.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Caddo Lake
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Horses - bison

16. What is the difference between buffalo and bison?
Buffalo are found in India - Asia - and Africa. Bison are found in America and have a large head and neck and humped shoulders. Also - a buffalo has 13 pairs of ribs - while a bison has 14 pairs of ribs.
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
An object made or altered by humans

17. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
Buffalo are found in India - Asia - and Africa. Bison are found in America and have a large head and neck and humped shoulders. Also - a buffalo has 13 pairs of ribs - while a bison has 14 pairs of ribs.
Coastal Plains
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Caddo Lake

18. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Blackland Prairie
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

19. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
El Paso

20. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in Texas.
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
El Paso

21. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
Blackland Prairie
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Cattle - sheep

22. What are the three subregions of the North Central Plains?
El Paso
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

23. What is the largest and most populated region?
Blackland Prairie
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Coastal Plains
2nd

24. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
A primary source is a document created at the time the event occurred. Letters - speeches - journals - newspaper articles - and photographes are examples of primary sources.
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Horses - bison

25. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Horses - bison

26. The four bordering states & country of Texas
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
2nd
Buffalo are found in India - Asia - and Africa. Bison are found in America and have a large head and neck and humped shoulders. Also - a buffalo has 13 pairs of ribs - while a bison has 14 pairs of ribs.
Buffalo are found in India - Asia - and Africa. Bison are found in America and have a large head and neck and humped shoulders. Also - a buffalo has 13 pairs of ribs - while a bison has 14 pairs of ribs.

27. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
El Paso
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
An object made or altered by humans

28. Define butte
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Caddo Lake
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Horses - bison

29. Artifact
An object made or altered by humans
Cattle - sheep
A primary source is a document created at the time the event occurred. Letters - speeches - journals - newspaper articles - and photographes are examples of primary sources.
Horses - bison

30. What is a secondary source?

31. What is a primary source? Give examples. A primary source is a ___. L___ - s___ - j____ - n____ - and p___ are examples of primary sources.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
2nd
A primary source is a document created at the time the event occurred. Letters - speeches - journals - newspaper articles - and photographes are examples of primary sources.
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

32. Archeologist
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Blackland Prairie
El Paso

33. Define a barter system.
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Houston -- Petrochemical
2nd
Houston -- Petrochemical

34. What is the largest city in Texas and what is the basis of its economy?
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Houston -- Petrochemical
A system where one product is traded for another without money.

35. Texas is the ___ largest state
An object made or altered by humans
2nd
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico

36. Define butte
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

37. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
Horses - bison
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Caddo Lake

38. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
A primary source is a document created at the time the event occurred. Letters - speeches - journals - newspaper articles - and photographes are examples of primary sources.

39. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
A primary source is a document created at the time the event occurred. Letters - speeches - journals - newspaper articles - and photographes are examples of primary sources.
Caddo Lake

40. What does culture include?
Horses - bison
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
An object made or altered by humans
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

41. Artifact
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
An object made or altered by humans
Houston -- Petrochemical
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

42. The four bordering states & country of Texas
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Buffalo are found in India - Asia - and Africa. Bison are found in America and have a large head and neck and humped shoulders. Also - a buffalo has 13 pairs of ribs - while a bison has 14 pairs of ribs.
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Horses - bison

43. What is a secondary source?

44. What is the difference between buffalo and bison?
An object made or altered by humans
Horses - bison
Buffalo are found in India - Asia - and Africa. Bison are found in America and have a large head and neck and humped shoulders. Also - a buffalo has 13 pairs of ribs - while a bison has 14 pairs of ribs.
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

45. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
A primary source is a document created at the time the event occurred. Letters - speeches - journals - newspaper articles - and photographes are examples of primary sources.
Blackland Prairie
Caddo Lake
A system where one product is traded for another without money.

46. How does elevation affect the climate?For every increase of _____ feet - the temperature drops about __ degrees
Blackland Prairie
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

47. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

48. Texas is the ___ largest state
2nd
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
Cattle - sheep

49. Archeologist
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
2nd
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

50. What is the largest and most populated region?
Coastal Plains
An object made or altered by humans
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa