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Texas Trivia

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is a secondary source?

2. Define a barter system.
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
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.

3. Texas is the ___ largest state
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
2nd
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

4. How does elevation affect the climate?For every increase of _____ feet - the temperature drops about __ degrees
Caddo Lake
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

5. What is the largest city in Texas and what is the basis of its economy?
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Houston -- Petrochemical
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

6. What does culture include?
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.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
A system where one product is traded for another without money.

7. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
El Paso
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

8. What are the three subregions of the North Central Plains?
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
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.
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Horses - bison

9. Define butte
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico

10. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
Horses - bison
Blackland Prairie
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
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.

11. What is the largest and most populated region?
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Cattle - sheep
Coastal Plains
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

12. What does culture include?
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

13. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
Caddo Lake
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
An object made or altered by humans
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

14. 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.
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 flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

15. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
El Paso

16. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Houston -- Petrochemical
Blackland Prairie
Horses - bison

17. Archeologist
Coastal Plains
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

18. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in Texas.
Coastal Plains
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
An object made or altered by humans
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa

19. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
An object made or altered by humans
Cattle - sheep
Blackland Prairie
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

20. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
Houston -- Petrochemical
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.
Horses - bison

21. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
Caddo Lake
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
2nd
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

22. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
Cattle - sheep
Coastal Plains
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

23. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
Blackland Prairie
An object made or altered by humans
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.
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

24. What is the largest and most populated region?
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Coastal Plains
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
2nd

25. Artifact
An object made or altered by humans
2nd
Horses - bison
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa

26. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
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
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

27. What is a secondary source?

28. The four bordering states & country of Texas
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
El Paso
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
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.

29. How does elevation affect the climate?For every increase of _____ feet - the temperature drops about __ degrees
El Paso
Caddo Lake
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

30. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
Horses - bison
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

31. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
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.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

32. 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.
El Paso
Houston -- Petrochemical
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.

33. What is the difference between buffalo and bison?
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
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.
Houston -- Petrochemical

34. Texas is the ___ largest state
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
2nd
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

35. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in 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
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

36. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

37. Name the 4 of the tribes that were a part of the Plains culture.
Horses - bison
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
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.

38. Artifact
El Paso
Horses - bison
An object made or altered by humans
Coastal Plains

39. Define butte
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Caddo Lake
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa

40. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
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.
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

41. 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.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
2nd
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

42. What is the largest city in Texas and what is the basis of its economy?
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
An object made or altered by humans
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Houston -- Petrochemical

43. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
Caddo Lake
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Houston -- Petrochemical
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico

44. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
El Paso
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Blackland Prairie
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

45. Define a barter system.
Coastal Plains
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.
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

46. Archeologist
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Blackland Prairie
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

47. Name the 4 of the tribes that were a part of the Plains culture.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

48. The four bordering states & country of Texas
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Cattle - sheep

49. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
Cattle - sheep
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
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

50. What are the three subregions of the North Central Plains?
El Paso
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.
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Houston -- Petrochemical