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Texas Trivia

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are the three subregions of the North Central Plains?
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
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.
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

2. Texas is the ___ largest state
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
2nd
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Coastal Plains

3. Texas is the ___ largest state
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
2nd
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life

4. What is the largest and most populated region?
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
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.
Coastal Plains

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

6. 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.
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

7. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
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.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

8. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
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
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

9. What are the three subregions of the North Central Plains?
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
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.

10. What is a primary source? Give examples. A primary source is a ___. L___ - s___ - j____ - n____ - and p___ are examples of primary sources.
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
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.
2nd

11. The four bordering states & country of Texas
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

12. Name the 4 of the tribes that were a part of the Plains culture.
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico

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

14. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
Horses - bison
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.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

15. What is the difference between buffalo and bison?
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.
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Horses - bison

16. What is the largest city in Texas and what is the basis of its economy?
Houston -- Petrochemical
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

17. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Caddo Lake
Blackland Prairie
El Paso

18. Archeologist
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
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

19. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

20. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Horses - bison
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

21. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in Texas.
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
An object made or altered by humans
El Paso

22. Name the 4 of the tribes that were a part of the Plains culture.
Cattle - sheep
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

23. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
2nd
Cattle - sheep

24. What is the largest city in Texas and what is the basis of its economy?
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Caddo Lake
Houston -- Petrochemical
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River

25. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Horses - bison
Houston -- Petrochemical
A system where one product is traded for another without money.

26. Artifact
An object made or altered by humans
Caddo Lake
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
El Paso

27. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Caddo Lake
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa

28. What is a secondary source?

29. The four bordering states & country of Texas
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
2nd

30. Artifact
An object made or altered by humans
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
A system where one product is traded for another without money.

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

32. What is a primary source? Give examples. A primary source is a ___. L___ - s___ - j____ - n____ - and p___ are examples of primary sources.
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
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.
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 does culture include?
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Cattle - sheep

34. Define butte
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
A system where one product is traded for another without money.

35. How does elevation affect the climate?For every increase of _____ feet - the temperature drops about __ degrees
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Horses - bison
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Coastal Plains

36. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Horses - bison
El Paso
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa

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

38. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Cattle - sheep
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

39. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
2nd
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Blackland Prairie

40. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
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.
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.

41. What is a secondary source?

42. What is the largest and most populated region?
Coastal Plains
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
El Paso

43. 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.
Coastal Plains
Coastal Plains

44. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
Caddo Lake
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.
Blackland Prairie

45. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
Houston -- Petrochemical
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Horses - bison
Cattle - sheep

46. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
El Paso
Cattle - sheep
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs

47. Define a barter system.
Coastal Plains
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Coastal Plains

48. Define a barter system.
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.
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

49. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
Coastal Plains
Blackland Prairie
Cattle - sheep
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

50. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
Horses - bison
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico