Texas Regions
This Texas region contains marshy swamplands, the Piney Woods, fertile soil, and abundant precipitation
What are the Coastal Plains?
The Caddo, Karankawa, and Coahuiltecan lived in this Texas region.
What are the Coastal Plains?
This powerful confederacy created large farming communities and grew corn, beans, and squash.
Who were the Caddo Confederacy?
This word means a large area of land that shares similar geographic features, climate, and environment.
What is a region?
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What is an artifact?
This region has a hot, arid climate, high elevation, and very little precipitation.
What are the Mountains and Basins?
These two groups lived in the Mountains and Basins region.
Who are the Jumano and Tigua?
This group lived in the Southern Coastal Plains, where harsh land and fewer resources encouraged a hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
Who were the Coahuiltecan?
Growing and cultivating crops is known by this term.
What is agriculture?
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What is a primary source?
This region contains the Chihuahuan Desert and Guadalupe Mountains and is home to animals such as deer and mountain lions.
What are the Mountains and Basins?
The Apache, Comanche, and Kiowa lived in this region and depended heavily on bison.
What are the Great Plains?
These people were traders, farmers, and hunters who lived in adobe pueblo villages.
Who were the Jumano?
A person or group that moves frequently from place to place, often searching for resources, is described by this word.
What is nomadic?
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What is a secondary source?
Palo Duro Canyon and the Llano Estacado are located in this Texas region.
What are the Great Plains?
This tribe lived in the North Central Plains and practiced farming, hunting, and gathering.
Who are the Wichita?
This group migrated to Texas during the 1700s, hunted bison, lived in teepees, and became known as fierce warriors.
Who were the Comanche?
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What are natural resources?
Christopher Columbus was born in this present-day European country.
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This region is known for flat, rolling grasslands, the Cross Timbers, and spring and summer tornadoes
What are the North Central Plains?
This tribe overlapped between the Great Plains and North Central Plains regions
Who are the Comanche?
This highly organized and powerful group formed alliances among many tribes and established trade relationships.
Who were the Caddo Confederacy?
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What is culture?
During an unusual escape at the El Paso Zoo, this many prairie dogs managed to get out.
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