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Texas Trivia

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1. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
Coastal Plains
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
El Paso
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.

2. What does culture include?
Horses - bison
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Coastal Plains

3. Name the 4 of the tribes that were a part of the Plains culture.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
An object made or altered by humans
Blackland Prairie

4. Name the 4 of the tribes that were a part of the Plains culture.
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
An object made or altered by humans
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
A system where one product is traded for another without money.

5. How does elevation affect the climate?For every increase of _____ feet - the temperature drops about __ degrees
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.
El Paso
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

6. Define a barter system.
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

7. Artifact
Horses - bison
Blackland Prairie
An object made or altered by humans
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

8. Define a barter system.
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.
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
El Paso

9. 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 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.

10. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
Caddo Lake
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Coastal Plains

11. What are the three subregions of the North Central Plains?
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
2nd
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico

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

13. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Blackland Prairie
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

14. 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.
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

15. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
El Paso
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Coastal Plains
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa

16. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Horses - bison
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

17. What is a secondary source?

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18. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Horses - bison
An object made or altered by humans
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

19. Define butte
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Coastal Plains
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

20. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in Texas.
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Cattle - sheep
Horses - bison

21. Texas is the ___ largest state
Houston -- Petrochemical
2nd
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.

22. What is the largest and most populated region?
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
Cattle - sheep
Coastal Plains

23. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Horses - bison
Blackland Prairie
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa

24. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
Blackland Prairie
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

25. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa

26. Texas is the ___ largest state
2nd
Coastal Plains
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.

27. How does elevation affect the climate?For every increase of _____ feet - the temperature drops about __ degrees
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Horses - bison
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

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

29. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
An object made or altered by humans

30. 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.
Houston -- Petrochemical
Caddo Lake
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

31. List the 4 natural regions 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.
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Horses - bison
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

32. 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.
Houston -- Petrochemical
Blackland Prairie

33. What is the difference between buffalo and bison?
Cattle - sheep
2nd
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.

34. What is a primary source? Give examples. A primary source is a ___. L___ - s___ - j____ - n____ - and p___ are examples of primary sources.
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
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.

35. The four bordering states & country of Texas
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

36. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
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.
Cattle - sheep

37. Archeologist
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
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life

38. What does culture include?
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Blackland Prairie
Horses - bison
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

39. What is a secondary source?

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40. 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.
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
An object made or altered by humans
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

41. Artifact
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
An object made or altered by humans

42. Define butte
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

43. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

44. What is the largest and most populated region?
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Coastal Plains

45. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
El Paso
Cattle - sheep
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life

46. 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
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa

47. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Coastal Plains
Caddo Lake
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

48. Archeologist
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
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.

49. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
An object made or altered by humans
Cattle - sheep
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico

50. The four bordering states & country of Texas
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Caddo Lake
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.