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Texas Trivia

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1. Archeologist
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Houston -- Petrochemical
Horses - bison

2. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in Texas.
El Paso
Coastal Plains
Blackland Prairie
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

3. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Horses - bison
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.

4. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
El Paso
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Houston -- Petrochemical

5. Define a barter system.
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.
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

6. Define butte
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.
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.

7. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
Coastal Plains
Caddo Lake
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Horses - bison

8. What does culture include?
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Caddo Lake

9. Texas is the ___ largest state
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
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
A system where one product is traded for another without money.

10. Define a barter system.
Blackland Prairie
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Caddo Lake
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.

11. The four bordering states & country 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.
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

12. What is the difference between buffalo and bison?
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
El Paso
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
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. What is a primary source? Give examples. A primary source is a ___. L___ - s___ - j____ - n____ - and p___ are examples of primary sources.
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
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.
Coastal Plains

14. What are the three subregions of the North Central Plains?
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

15. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in Texas.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
2nd
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Caddo Lake

16. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
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.

17. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Horses - bison
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Coastal Plains

18. Archeologist
Coastal Plains
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
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.

19. What are the three subregions of the North Central Plains?
Cattle - sheep
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

20. The four bordering states & country of Texas
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
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.
Cattle - sheep

21. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
Blackland Prairie
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Cattle - sheep
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

22. What is a secondary source?

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23. 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
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico

24. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
Houston -- Petrochemical
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
Caddo Lake

25. What is the difference between buffalo and bison?
Caddo Lake
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
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 document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.

26. What does culture include?
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Caddo Lake
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

27. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
Caddo Lake
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

28. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
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.
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

29. Texas is the ___ largest state
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
2nd
An object made or altered by humans
Blackland Prairie

30. What is a primary source? Give examples. A primary source is a ___. L___ - s___ - j____ - n____ - and p___ are examples of primary sources.
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.
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Houston -- Petrochemical

31. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

32. Artifact
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.
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
An object made or altered by humans

33. Name the 4 of the tribes that were a part of the Plains culture.
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
2nd
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

34. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
El Paso
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa

35. What is the largest city in Texas and what is the basis of its economy?
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
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.
Houston -- Petrochemical

36. What is the largest and most populated region?
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
Horses - bison

37. Artifact
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.
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
An object made or altered by humans
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

38. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
Cattle - sheep
Houston -- Petrochemical
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

39. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Cattle - sheep
Coastal Plains
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

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

41. What is a secondary source?

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42. What is the largest and most populated region?
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Coastal Plains
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Blackland Prairie

43. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

44. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
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.
Blackland Prairie
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.

45. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Caddo Lake
Cattle - sheep
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

46. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
Coastal Plains
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Cattle - sheep
2nd

47. What is the largest city in Texas and what is the basis of its economy?
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
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
Houston -- Petrochemical

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

49. How does elevation affect the climate?For every increase of _____ feet - the temperature drops about __ degrees
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Caddo Lake
An object made or altered by humans
Blackland Prairie

50. Define butte
2nd
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
An object made or altered by humans
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa