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1. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in Texas.
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
2nd
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

2. 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 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

3. What is the difference between buffalo and bison?
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
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.

4. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
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.
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

5. How does elevation affect the climate?For every increase of _____ feet - the temperature drops about __ degrees
Caddo Lake
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

6. Texas is the ___ largest state
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Horses - bison
2nd
Coastal Plains

7. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
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.
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

8. What are the three subregions of the North Central Plains?
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
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.
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

9. What does culture include?
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.
Cattle - sheep
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

10. Define butte
An object made or altered by humans
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
An object made or altered by humans

11. Artifact
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
An object made or altered by humans
2nd

12. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
An object made or altered by humans
El Paso
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
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.

13. Artifact
Cattle - sheep
2nd
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
An object made or altered by humans

14. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
An object made or altered by humans
Blackland Prairie
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Cattle - sheep

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

16. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Blackland Prairie
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa

17. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
2nd
Horses - bison
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa

18. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
Houston -- Petrochemical
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
2nd
Houston -- Petrochemical

19. Archeologist
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.
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life

20. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
Horses - bison
2nd
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

21. Define a barter system.
Caddo Lake
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
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.

22. What is a secondary source?

23. What is the largest city in Texas and what is the basis of its economy?
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Caddo Lake
Horses - bison
Houston -- Petrochemical

24. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
Cattle - sheep
Houston -- Petrochemical
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

25. Define butte
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Coastal Plains

26. What is a secondary source?

27. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize 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.
El Paso
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

28. 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.
Coastal Plains
An object made or altered by humans

29. What does culture include?
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
Coastal Plains
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

30. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
Cattle - sheep
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.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

31. Archeologist
Cattle - sheep
El Paso
Coastal Plains
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life

32. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
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.

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
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

34. 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.
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life

35. Define a barter system.
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Houston -- Petrochemical
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

36. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
El Paso
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
2nd
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

37. Texas is the ___ largest state
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Coastal Plains
2nd
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

38. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Blackland Prairie

39. 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.
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

40. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
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
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

41. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
Caddo Lake
An object made or altered by humans
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Houston -- Petrochemical

42. What are the three subregions of the North Central Plains?
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Horses - bison
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa

43. What is the largest city in Texas and what is the basis of its economy?
Houston -- Petrochemical
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Coastal Plains

44. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
Horses - bison
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Cattle - sheep
2nd

45. What is the largest and most populated region?
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
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.

46. The four bordering states & country of Texas
Coastal Plains
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Caddo Lake

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

48. What is the largest and most populated region?
Houston -- Petrochemical
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Blackland Prairie
Coastal Plains

49. How does elevation affect the climate?For every increase of _____ feet - the temperature drops about __ degrees
Blackland Prairie
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Houston -- Petrochemical
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

50. The four bordering states & country of Texas
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
An object made or altered by humans