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Texas Trivia

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
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

2. Archeologist
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
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.

3. What is the largest and most populated region?
Coastal Plains
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Horses - bison
El Paso

4. What are the three border rivers 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.
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

5. What is the difference between buffalo and bison?
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
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.
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa

6. What is a secondary source?

7. 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.
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

8. 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
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.

9. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Caddo Lake

10. What is a primary source? Give examples. A primary source is a ___. L___ - s___ - j____ - n____ - and p___ are examples of primary sources.
Caddo Lake
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
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.

11. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
Cattle - sheep
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
El Paso

12. Define butte
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

13. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
2nd
Horses - bison
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa

14. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
El Paso
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Blackland Prairie
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

15. What are the three subregions of the North Central Plains?
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Coastal Plains
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Coastal Plains

16. What are the three subregions of the North Central Plains?
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Coastal Plains
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Houston -- Petrochemical

17. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
Blackland Prairie
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
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

18. The four bordering states & country of Texas
Cattle - sheep
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

19. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Houston -- Petrochemical
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

20. Artifact
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Caddo Lake
An object made or altered by humans
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

21. Name the 4 of the tribes that were a part of the Plains culture.
2nd
El Paso
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

22. Texas is the ___ largest state
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
El Paso
2nd
Houston -- Petrochemical

23. What is the difference between buffalo and bison?
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
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.
An object made or altered by humans

24. 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.
Caddo Lake
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

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

26. Define butte
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.
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa

27. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
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 system where one product is traded for another without money.
Horses - bison

28. What is a secondary source?

29. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Houston -- Petrochemical
El Paso

30. 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.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

31. The four bordering states & country 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.
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Houston -- Petrochemical
El Paso

32. 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.
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Houston -- Petrochemical
El Paso

33. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Houston -- Petrochemical
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.

34. 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.
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
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

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

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

37. How does elevation affect the climate?For every increase of _____ feet - the temperature drops about __ degrees
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Horses - bison
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

38. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
Cattle - sheep
2nd
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Caddo Lake

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

40. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
El Paso
An object made or altered by humans
Horses - bison
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

41. What does culture include?
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Horses - bison
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Cattle - sheep

42. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
Horses - bison
Caddo Lake
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Cattle - sheep

43. Archeologist
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.
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
2nd

44. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
An object made or altered by humans
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Cattle - sheep
A system where one product is traded for another without money.

45. 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.
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.
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

46. Texas is the ___ largest state
2nd
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Cattle - sheep
Coastal Plains

47. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
2nd
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.

48. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in Texas.
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
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
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life

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

50. Artifact
An object made or altered by humans
Coastal Plains
2nd
Blackland Prairie