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Texas Trivia

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1. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Coastal Plains
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

2. What is a secondary source?

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3. What is the largest city in Texas and what is the basis of its economy?
Caddo Lake
Houston -- Petrochemical
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
An object made or altered by humans

4. Artifact
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Coastal Plains
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
An object made or altered by humans

5. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
An object made or altered by humans
Horses - bison

6. Archeologist
Houston -- Petrochemical
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
A system where one product is traded for another without money.

7. What does culture include?
Caddo Lake
El Paso
Blackland Prairie
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

8. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Coastal Plains
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

9. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
Houston -- Petrochemical
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.
Cattle - sheep

10. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
Caddo Lake
Cattle - sheep
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

11. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
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.
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

12. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
Caddo Lake
Cattle - sheep
El Paso
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa

13. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Horses - bison
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

14. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
El Paso
Horses - bison
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

15. What is the largest and most populated region?
Coastal Plains
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Cattle - sheep
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

16. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
An object made or altered by humans
Blackland Prairie
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Coastal Plains

17. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
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.
Caddo Lake
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life

18. The four bordering states & country of Texas
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Horses - bison
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
An object made or altered by humans

19. Name the 4 of the tribes that were a part of the Plains culture.
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Caddo Lake
El Paso
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa

20. Define a barter system.
Cattle - sheep
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

21. What is a primary source? Give examples. A primary source is a ___. L___ - s___ - j____ - n____ - and p___ are examples of primary sources.
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - 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.
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.

22. What is the largest and most populated region?
An object made or altered by humans
Caddo Lake
Coastal Plains
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

23. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
Houston -- Petrochemical
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
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

24. What are the three subregions of the North Central Plains?
Cattle - sheep
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
An object made or altered by humans
Cattle - sheep

25. 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 scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
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.
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico

26. What does culture include?
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.
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

27. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in Texas.
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
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.
Houston -- Petrochemical

28. 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.
Coastal Plains
El Paso
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

29. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
Blackland Prairie
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Horses - bison
A system where one product is traded for another without money.

30. Define butte
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
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.

31. How does elevation affect the climate?For every increase of _____ feet - the temperature drops about __ degrees
Coastal Plains
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Caddo Lake

32. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
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

33. Define butte
2nd
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Houston -- Petrochemical

34. Artifact
Caddo Lake
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.
An object made or altered by humans

35. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
Blackland Prairie
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.
Cattle - sheep

36. What is a secondary source?

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37. The four bordering states & country of Texas
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Caddo Lake
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - 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.

38. What is the largest city in Texas and what is the basis of its economy?
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Caddo Lake
Houston -- Petrochemical
2nd

39. Define a barter system.
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Blackland Prairie
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Caddo Lake

40. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
Horses - bison
Cattle - sheep
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico

41. Texas is the ___ largest state
Houston -- Petrochemical
Coastal Plains
Blackland Prairie
2nd

42. What is the difference between buffalo and bison?
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
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.
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life

43. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
Blackland Prairie
Horses - bison
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Cattle - sheep

44. What is the difference between buffalo and bison?
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Coastal Plains
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - 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.

45. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in Texas.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
An object made or altered by humans
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Caddo Lake

46. Texas is the ___ largest state
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
2nd

47. Name the 4 of the tribes that were a part of the Plains culture.
El Paso
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
Cattle - sheep
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa

48. 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
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.

49. Archeologist
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Houston -- Petrochemical
Blackland Prairie
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life

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