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Texas Trivia

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Archeologist
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
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.
Cattle - sheep

2. What is a secondary source?

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3. What is the only natural lake 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.
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Caddo Lake
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

4. What does culture include?
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Houston -- Petrochemical
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

5. The four bordering states & country of Texas
An object made or altered by humans
Cattle - sheep
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

6. Artifact
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
Horses - bison
An object made or altered by humans
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life

7. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
Cattle - sheep
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life

8. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in Texas.
2nd
Caddo Lake
2nd
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

9. What is a secondary source?

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10. Name the 4 of the tribes that were a part of the Plains culture.
An object made or altered by humans
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.
2nd

11. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Blackland Prairie
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

12. Archeologist
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Horses - bison
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Blackland Prairie

13. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Blackland Prairie
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

14. What is the largest and most populated region?
Coastal Plains
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
An object made or altered by humans
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

15. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
2nd
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa

16. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Cattle - sheep

17. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
An object made or altered by humans
Horses - bison
Coastal Plains
El Paso

18. What are the three subregions of the North Central Plains?
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Houston -- Petrochemical
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

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

20. What is the largest city in Texas and what is the basis of its economy?
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Houston -- Petrochemical
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life

21. Define a barter system.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa

22. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in Texas.
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.
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
2nd

23. Texas is the ___ largest state
2nd
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.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

24. 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.
Blackland Prairie
El Paso
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa

25. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
Horses - bison
An object made or altered by humans
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa

26. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Horses - bison
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.

27. The four bordering states & country of Texas
El Paso
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

28. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - 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.
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

29. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Cattle - sheep
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.

30. Define butte
Houston -- Petrochemical
Blackland Prairie
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Horses - bison

31. How does elevation affect the climate?For every increase of _____ feet - the temperature drops about __ degrees
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Horses - bison
Coastal Plains
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

32. Name the 4 of the tribes that were a part of the Plains culture.
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

33. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
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.
Houston -- Petrochemical

34. What is the largest city in Texas and what is the basis of its economy?
Cattle - sheep
Caddo Lake
Houston -- Petrochemical
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

35. What is the difference between buffalo and bison?
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
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.

36. 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.
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

37. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
El Paso
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

38. What are the three subregions of the North Central 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.
2nd
2nd
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

39. What is the largest and most populated region?
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Coastal Plains
Cattle - sheep
Caddo Lake

40. What does culture include?
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
An object made or altered by humans

41. What is a primary source? Give examples. A primary source is a ___. L___ - s___ - j____ - n____ - and p___ are examples of primary sources.
Houston -- Petrochemical
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - 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.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

42. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
El Paso
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Blackland Prairie
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

43. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
El Paso
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
2nd
A system where one product is traded for another without money.

44. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
Houston -- Petrochemical
Horses - bison
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

45. What is a primary source? Give examples. A primary source is a ___. L___ - s___ - j____ - n____ - and p___ are examples of primary sources.
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 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.
El Paso
Horses - bison

46. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
Blackland Prairie
2nd
Houston -- Petrochemical
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

47. Texas is the ___ largest state
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
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.
2nd

48. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
Houston -- Petrochemical
Caddo Lake
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

49. Define a barter system.
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
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.

50. What is the difference between buffalo and bison?
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
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.