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Texas Trivia

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
El Paso
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Houston -- Petrochemical
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

2. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
An object made or altered by humans

3. Define butte
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Cattle - sheep
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
A system where one product is traded for another without money.

4. What is a secondary source?

5. What is a primary source? Give examples. A primary source is a ___. L___ - s___ - j____ - n____ - and p___ are examples of primary sources.
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
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
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

6. What is the difference between buffalo and bison?
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
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.
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa

7. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in Texas.
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

8. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
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.
El Paso
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. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
2nd
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa

10. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
Horses - bison
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
2nd
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

11. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
Cattle - sheep
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - 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.

12. What is the largest city in Texas and what is the basis of its economy?
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
Coastal Plains

13. What are the three subregions of the North Central Plains?
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
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
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

14. Define butte
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
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.

15. What is the difference between buffalo and bison?
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
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.
El Paso

16. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
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.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Caddo Lake

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

18. Artifact
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
2nd
Coastal Plains
An object made or altered by humans

19. Define a barter system.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
A system where one product is traded for another without money.

20. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Caddo Lake
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

21. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Cattle - sheep
Blackland Prairie

22. Texas is the ___ largest state
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Caddo Lake
2nd

23. Name the 4 of the tribes that were a part of the Plains culture.
El Paso
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa

24. Archeologist
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Caddo Lake
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
Blackland Prairie

25. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in 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.
Cattle - sheep
An object made or altered by humans
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico

26. 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.
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Coastal Plains
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

27. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
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.
Horses - bison
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

28. What is the only natural lake 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.
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.
Caddo Lake

29. What is the largest city in Texas and what is the basis of its economy?
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.
Houston -- Petrochemical
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

30. The four bordering states & country of Texas
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

31. 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
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa

32. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
An object made or altered by humans
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

33. The four bordering states & country of Texas
Caddo Lake
2nd
2nd
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

34. Texas is the ___ largest state
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
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
2nd

35. 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.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Horses - bison
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico

36. What are the three subregions of the North Central Plains?
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Caddo Lake
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

37. Archeologist
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
Blackland Prairie
El Paso

38. 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.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Coastal Plains
An object made or altered by humans

39. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
A system where one product is traded for another without money.

40. What is a secondary source?

41. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
An object made or altered by humans
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico

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

43. What is the largest and most populated region?
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
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

44. Artifact
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
An object made or altered by humans
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

45. What does culture include?
An object made or altered by humans
Coastal Plains
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

46. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Blackland Prairie
Cattle - sheep
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico

47. How does elevation affect the climate?For every increase of _____ feet - the temperature drops about __ degrees
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
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.
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

48. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in Texas.
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
El Paso
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

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

50. Define a barter system.
Blackland Prairie
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
A system where one product is traded for another without money.