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Texas Trivia

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Define butte
Coastal Plains
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
2nd
El Paso

2. Name the 4 of the tribes that were a part of the Plains culture.
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.
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa

3. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in Texas.
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
A system where one product is traded for another without money.

4. What is the largest city in Texas and what is the basis of its economy?
Houston -- Petrochemical
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

5. Artifact
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
2nd
An object made or altered by humans
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico

6. What does culture include?
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Blackland Prairie

7. What are the three subregions of the North Central Plains?
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Caddo Lake
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.

8. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
Horses - bison
Blackland Prairie
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

9. What is the largest and most populated region?
Cattle - sheep
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Coastal Plains
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa

10. Texas is the ___ largest state
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
2nd
Horses - bison
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life

11. Define butte
Horses - bison
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Blackland Prairie

12. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
An object made or altered by humans
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

13. 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.
A document created after the event occurred by someone who wasn't an eyewitness. A secondary source uses primary sources.
Blackland Prairie

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

15. List the 4 natural regions of Texas
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
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.
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico

16. What is the largest and most populated region?
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Coastal Plains
Caddo Lake

17. What is a primary source? Give examples. A primary source is a ___. L___ - s___ - j____ - n____ - and p___ are examples of primary sources.
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Blackland Prairie
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.

18. What is the difference between buffalo and bison?
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.
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Cattle - sheep

19. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life
Cattle - sheep
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

20. What kind(s) of livestock are raised in Texas?
El Paso
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Cattle - sheep

21. What are the three border rivers of Texas?
Coastal Plains
2nd
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
Horses - bison

22. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
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.
An object made or altered by humans
Caddo Lake

23. Artifact
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures
An object made or altered by humans

24. How does elevation affect the climate?For every increase of _____ feet - the temperature drops about __ degrees
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Horses - bison
Sabine River - Rio Grande - Red River
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

25. What is the difference between buffalo and bison?
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
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.

26. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
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 flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Horses - bison

27. What does culture include?
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.
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.

28. What is the largest city in Texas and what is the basis of its economy?
Cattle - sheep
Houston -- Petrochemical
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
2nd

29. Name 4 seperate culture groups that anthropologists recognize in Texas.
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
Caddo Lake
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

30. Define a barter system.
El Paso
2nd
Houston -- Petrochemical
A system where one product is traded for another without money.

31. Name the 4 of the tribes that were a part of the Plains culture.
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
Houston -- Petrochemical
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins

32. What is a secondary source?

33. The four bordering states & country of Texas
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.
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

34. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Caddo Lake
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

35. What is a secondary source?

36. Archeologist
Blackland Prairie
Coastal Plains
2nd
A scientist who studies the material remains of past human life

37. Texas is the ___ largest state
Houston -- Petrochemical
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Blackland Prairie
2nd

38. The way of life of the Plains culture depended on which two animals?
El Paso
Horses - bison
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.

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

40. What are the three subregions of the North Central Plains?
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
Houston -- Petrochemical
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico

41. What is the only natural lake of Texas?
Caddo Lake
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
Houston -- Petrochemical

42. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
North American Free Trade Agreement -- Canada - United States - Mexico
El Paso
A flat-topped hill - smaller than a mesa
Cattle - sheep

43. What does NAFTA stand for and what countries does it include?
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains
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.
2nd

44. What subregion is the capital of Texas in?
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
Blackland Prairie
Coastal Plains
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

45. What city do most people in the Mountains & Basins live?
Coastal Plains - North Central Plains - Great Plains - Mountains & Basins
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.
El Paso

46. The four bordering states & country of Texas
Cattle - sheep
Louisiana - Arkansas - Oklahoma - New Mexico - Mexico
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.

47. Explain the difference between intrastate and intetrstate.
Intrastate means from place to place in a state - while interstate means from one state to another.
Blackland Prairie
Coastal Plains
Tonkawa - Apache - Comanche - Kiowa

48. Define a barter system.
A system where one product is traded for another without money.
Language - customs - clothing - shelter - ways of working and playing - beliefs
An object made or altered by humans
Cross Timbers - Grand Prairie - Rolling Plains

49. 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
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.
Southeastern - Gulf - Pueblo - Plains cultures

50. 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.
For every increase of 1000 feet - the temperature drops about 3 degrees.
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.