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1. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in Texas.
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
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.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

2. What is the largest city in Texas and what is the basis of its economy?
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.
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
2nd

3. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
Coastal 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.
El Paso
Horses - bison

4. 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.
El Paso
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

5. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Blackland Prairie
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.

6. What is the largest and most populated region?
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.
Houston -- Petrochemical
Coastal Plains

7. What is the largest and most populated region?
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
2nd
Houston -- Petrochemical
Coastal Plains

8. What is a primary source? Give examples. A primary source is a ___. L___ - s___ - j____ - n____ - and p___ are examples of primary sources.
2nd
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
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.

9. The four bordering states & country of Texas
Houston -- Petrochemical
El Paso
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
2nd

10. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
El Paso
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Blackland Prairie
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life

11. What is a secondary source?

12. What is the difference between buffalo and bison?
2nd
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
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.

13. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
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.
Caddo Lake
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

14. Define a barter system.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
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.

15. Define butte
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling 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.

16. What is a secondary source?

17. Artifact
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
Horses - bison
2nd

18. What does culture include?
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
An object made or altered by humans
Houston -- Petrochemical

19. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
Caddo Lake
Coastal Plains
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Cattle - sheep

20. Name the 4 of the tribes that were a part of the Plains culture.
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
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.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

21. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
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.
Houston -- Petrochemical
Caddo Lake

22. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
El Paso
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

23. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
El Paso
Caddo Lake

24. 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.
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

25. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
Blackland Prairie
Cattle - sheep
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.

26. Define a barter system.
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
A system where one product is traded for another without money.

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

28. How does elevation affect the climate?For every increase of _____ feet - the temperature drops about __ degrees
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Caddo Lake
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Caddo Lake

29. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
Houston -- Petrochemical
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Horses - bison
A system where one product is traded for another without money.

30. Define butte
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
An object made or altered by humans
2nd
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

31. What does culture include?
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
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.
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico

32. Texas is the ___ largest state
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
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.

33. 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.
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Blackland Prairie
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

34. What is the difference between buffalo and bison?
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
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.
2nd

35. Texas is the ___ largest state
Houston -- Petrochemical
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
2nd

36. The four bordering states & country of Texas
An object made or altered by humans
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

37. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in Texas.
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
El Paso
Caddo Lake
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.

38. Archeologist
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Horses - bison

39. What is the largest city in Texas and what is the basis of its economy?
Houston -- Petrochemical
Cattle - sheep
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

40. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
An object made or altered by humans
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico

41. Archeologist
Houston -- Petrochemical
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico

42. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
Caddo Lake
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Horses - bison
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

43. What is a primary source? Give examples. A primary source is a ___. L___ - s___ - j____ - n____ - and p___ are examples of primary sources.
An object made or altered by humans
Cattle - sheep
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.

44. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
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.
Coastal Plains

45. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Caddo Lake
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico

46. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Caddo Lake
Horses - bison

47. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
Caddo Lake
Horses - bison
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Blackland Prairie

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

49. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Blackland Prairie
Cattle - sheep

50. Artifact
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.
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
An object made or altered by humans
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River