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Texas Trivia

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Artifact
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
An object made or altered by humans
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life

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

3. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Houston -- Petrochemical
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
2nd

4. The four bordering states & country of Texas
An object made or altered by humans
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
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.

5. What is the largest city in Texas and what is the basis of its economy?
Houston -- Petrochemical
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

6. What is the largest and most populated region?
Coastal Plains
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Houston -- Petrochemical
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life

7. Define a barter system.
Caddo Lake
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.

8. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Caddo Lake
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

9. What is a primary source? Give examples. A primary source is a ___. L___ - s___ - j____ - n____ - and p___ are examples of primary sources.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Caddo Lake
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.
Horses - bison

10. 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.
Coastal Plains
Cattle - sheep
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa

11. The four bordering states & country of Texas
Houston -- Petrochemical
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Coastal Plains
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

12. What is a secondary source?

13. 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.
2nd

14. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
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.
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Blackland Prairie

15. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
Horses - bison
Cattle - sheep
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

16. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
El Paso
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Horses - bison
2nd

17. What is the difference between buffalo and bison?
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Coastal 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.

18. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
Houston -- Petrochemical
Blackland Prairie
El Paso
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

19. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
Horses - bison
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.
Caddo Lake

20. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Cattle - sheep

21. 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.
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Blackland Prairie

22. Archeologist
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
2nd
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

23. Texas is the ___ largest state
2nd
Coastal Plains
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

24. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in Texas.
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
2nd
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

25. What is the largest city in Texas and what is the basis of its economy?
Horses - bison
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Houston -- Petrochemical

26. Define butte
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Caddo Lake
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

27. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
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.
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.

28. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in 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.
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Cattle - sheep

29. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Houston -- Petrochemical
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico

30. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Houston -- Petrochemical
Horses - bison

31. How does elevation affect the climate?For every increase of _____ feet - the temperature drops about __ degrees
Horses - bison
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life

32. What is the difference between buffalo and 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.
An object made or altered by humans
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.

33. Name the 4 of the tribes that were a part of the Plains culture.
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa

34. Name the 4 of the tribes that were a part of the Plains culture.
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Houston -- Petrochemical

35. Texas is the ___ largest state
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
2nd
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
An object made or altered by humans

36. What does culture include?
El Paso
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

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

38. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
An object made or altered by humans
El Paso

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

40. What is the largest and most populated region?
2nd
Coastal Plains
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Blackland Prairie

41. What is a secondary source?

42. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Blackland Prairie
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

43. What is a primary source? Give examples. A primary source is a ___. L___ - s___ - j____ - n____ - and p___ are examples of primary sources.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Houston -- Petrochemical
Caddo Lake
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.

44. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

45. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
2nd
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

46. Define butte
Horses - bison
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
El Paso
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

47. What are the three subregions of the North Central Plains?
Houston -- Petrochemical
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
An object made or altered by humans

48. What does culture include?
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Caddo Lake
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

49. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
2nd
Blackland Prairie
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico

50. Artifact
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.
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins