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Texas Trivia

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1. What is a secondary source?

2. Archeologist
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Coastal Plains
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life

3. What is the difference between buffalo and bison?
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
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.
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

4. Define butte
Horses - bison
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

5. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in Texas.
El Paso
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
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

6. What is the largest city in Texas and what is the basis of its economy?
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Houston -- Petrochemical
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

7. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
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
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

8. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
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
Cattle - sheep
Coastal Plains

9. What are the three subregions of the North Central Plains?
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

10. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Caddo Lake
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.
An object made or altered by humans

11. Define a barter system.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Horses - bison
Houston -- Petrochemical

12. Texas is the ___ largest state
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Horses - bison
2nd
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life

13. Texas is the ___ largest state
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
2nd
Cattle - sheep
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

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

15. What is the largest city in Texas and what is the basis of its economy?
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Houston -- Petrochemical
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

16. What is the largest and most populated region?
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Coastal Plains
Horses - bison
Blackland Prairie

17. Artifact
An object made or altered by humans
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
El Paso

18. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in Texas.
Houston -- Petrochemical
Horses - bison
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

19. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
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
Cattle - sheep
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

20. How does elevation affect the climate?For every increase of _____ feet - the temperature drops about __ 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.
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Houston -- Petrochemical
Caddo Lake

21. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Horses - bison
Houston -- Petrochemical
Caddo Lake

22. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
2nd
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

23. What does culture include?
El Paso
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
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.

24. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
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.
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

25. What are the three subregions of the North Central 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.
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Caddo Lake
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa

26. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
El Paso
Horses - bison
Blackland Prairie

27. What is the largest and most populated region?
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
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.
An object made or altered by humans

28. What does culture include?
Cattle - sheep
Blackland Prairie
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.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

29. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
An object made or altered by humans
El Paso
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

30. Define butte
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
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

31. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
El Paso
Cattle - sheep
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Caddo Lake

32. What is a secondary source?

33. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
An object made or altered by humans
Caddo Lake
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

34. What is a primary source? Give examples. A primary source is a ___. L___ - s___ - j____ - n____ - and p___ are examples of primary sources.
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
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.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

35. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
Blackland Prairie
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
A system where one product is traded for another without money.

36. The four bordering states & country of Texas
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Horses - bison
2nd

37. Artifact
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Horses - bison
An object made or altered by humans

38. Name the 4 of the tribes that were a part of the Plains culture.
2nd
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

39. What is a primary source? Give examples. A primary source is a ___. L___ - s___ - j____ - n____ - and p___ are examples of primary sources.
El Paso
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Horses - bison
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.

40. Name the 4 of the tribes that were a part of the Plains culture.
Horses - bison
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

41. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
Houston -- Petrochemical
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Caddo Lake
An object made or altered by humans

42. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Horses - bison
Caddo Lake
A system where one product is traded for another without money.

43. The four bordering states & country of Texas
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
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.

44. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
El Paso
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

45. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico

46. Archeologist
Cattle - sheep
Houston -- Petrochemical
Horses - bison
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life

47. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
Caddo Lake
Blackland Prairie
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling 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.

48. How does elevation affect the climate?For every increase of _____ feet - the temperature drops about __ degrees
An object made or altered by humans
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
El Paso

49. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Coastal Plains

50. What is the difference between buffalo and bison?
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
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
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico