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Texas Trivia

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1. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
El Paso
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Cattle - sheep
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

2. Name the 4 of the tribes that were a part of the Plains culture.
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
2nd
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico

3. What is the largest and most populated region?
Coastal Plains
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
El Paso
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

4. Artifact
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
An object made or altered by humans
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

5. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in Texas.
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
Horses - bison
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

6. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
El Paso

7. Define a barter system.
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
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.
El Paso

8. What does culture include?
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Coastal Plains
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Horses - bison

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

10. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
Caddo Lake
Horses - bison
Coastal Plains
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.

11. Define butte
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
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.
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa

12. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
Caddo Lake
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

13. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
Cattle - sheep
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.
2nd

14. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
Horses - bison
Blackland Prairie
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa

15. Texas is the ___ largest state
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
2nd
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Coastal Plains

16. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Cattle - sheep

17. What are the three subregions of the North Central Plains?
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
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.
2nd

18. What is a secondary source?

19. 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
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
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.

20. The four bordering states & country of Texas
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Caddo Lake
Horses - bison
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

21. Artifact
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
An object made or altered by humans
Caddo Lake

22. Texas is the ___ largest state
Cattle - sheep
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.

23. What is a primary source? Give examples. A primary source is a ___. L___ - s___ - j____ - n____ - and p___ are examples of primary sources.
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.
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.

24. What is a secondary source?

25. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Horses - bison
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

26. The four bordering states & country of Texas
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Coastal Plains
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

27. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
Houston -- Petrochemical
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
An object made or altered by humans

28. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
2nd
El Paso
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Blackland Prairie

29. Define a barter system.
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.
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Houston -- Petrochemical

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

31. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
2nd
Coastal Plains
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Houston -- Petrochemical

32. Name the 4 of the tribes that were a part of the Plains culture.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
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.
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa

33. What are the three subregions of the North Central Plains?
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
An object made or altered by humans
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

34. Archeologist
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

35. 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.
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

36. What is the difference between buffalo and bison?
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
El Paso
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.

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

38. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
El Paso
Horses - bison

39. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Horses - bison
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico

40. What is the largest city in Texas and what is the basis of its economy?
Houston -- Petrochemical
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Coastal Plains

41. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in Texas.
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa

42. How does elevation affect the climate?For every increase of _____ feet - the temperature drops about __ degrees
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Blackland Prairie
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.

43. Archeologist
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Caddo Lake
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

44. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
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.
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Cattle - sheep

45. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
2nd
An object made or altered by humans
A system where one product is traded for another without money.

46. What is the largest and most populated region?
El Paso
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
2nd
Coastal Plains

47. What does culture include?
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
Houston -- Petrochemical
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.

48. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
Caddo Lake
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Cattle - sheep
2nd

49. What is the difference between buffalo and bison?
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.
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
Cattle - sheep

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