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Texas Trivia

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1. Name the 4 of the tribes that were a part of the Plains culture.
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
Coastal Plains
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

2. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
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.
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

3. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Houston -- Petrochemical

4. 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
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
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.

5. What is the largest and most populated region?
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
An object made or altered by humans
Coastal Plains
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

6. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
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.
El Paso

7. What is a secondary source?

8. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
Cattle - sheep
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Caddo Lake
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa

9. 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.
An object made or altered by humans
Houston -- Petrochemical
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

10. How does elevation affect the climate?For every increase of _____ feet - the temperature drops about __ degrees
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Caddo Lake
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa

11. Artifact
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
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.

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

13. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
Blackland Prairie
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico

14. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

15. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
Horses - bison
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses 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.
Caddo Lake

16. What is the largest and most populated region?
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
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.
Coastal Plains

17. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in Texas.
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Houston -- Petrochemical
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa

18. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
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.
El Paso

19. Texas is the ___ largest state
2nd
Coastal Plains
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

20. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in Texas.
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.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

21. Define a barter system.
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
A system where one product is traded for another without money.

22. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
El Paso
Blackland Prairie
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
An object made or altered by humans

23. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
Horses - bison
Caddo Lake
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.

24. What is a secondary source?

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

26. What is the difference between buffalo and bison?
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling 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.
El Paso

27. What does culture include?
Coastal Plains
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
El Paso
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

28. What is the largest city in Texas and what is the basis of its economy?
El Paso
Houston -- Petrochemical
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.

29. Archeologist
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
2nd
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

30. What does culture include?
Coastal Plains
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses 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.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

31. Name the 4 of the tribes that were a part of the Plains culture.
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Blackland Prairie
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.

32. Define butte
Horses - bison
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.
An object made or altered by humans

33. 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
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

34. What is a primary source? Give examples. A primary source is a ___. L___ - s___ - j____ - n____ - and p___ are examples of primary sources.
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.
Caddo Lake
2nd

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

36. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
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.
Blackland Prairie

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

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

39. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
El Paso
2nd
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Houston -- Petrochemical

40. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it 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.
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Caddo Lake

41. Archeologist
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Blackland Prairie

42. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Coastal Plains
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

43. Artifact
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
El Paso
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
An object made or altered by humans

44. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
An object made or altered by humans
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
El Paso

45. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
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.

46. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
Caddo Lake
Blackland Prairie
An object made or altered by humans
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.

47. Define butte
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.
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Cattle - sheep

48. How does elevation affect the climate?For every increase of _____ feet - the temperature drops about __ degrees
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

49. Define a barter system.
2nd
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.
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.

50. The four bordering states & country of Texas
Caddo Lake
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
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.