Vocabulary
Those who study statistical data about human populations
What are demographers?
This led to decreased the supply of oil and led to soaring gas prices across the United States
What is an oil embargo?
This was used to help production of cotton
What is a Cotton Gin?
This is one hospital in Houston that is known worldwide for their knowledge and research
What is MD Anderson Cancer Center?
This person founded one of the largest personal computer companies in the world
Who is Michael Dell?
The process of increasing connectivity between the world’s societies
What is globalization?
Oil refineries were established here as a result of an oil boom in Texas (NAME ONE)
What is Corpus Christi, Beaumont, or Houston?
Farms had to leave rural areas and move to more urban areas for work. What is this called?
What is urbanization?
He is known as the “Father of Modern Cardiovascular Health”
Who is Dr. Michael DeBakey?
Engineers and scientists worked here in the 1950s and 1960s
What is Texas Instruments?
An economic pattern characterized by periods of economic growth and periods of economic decline
What is a boom-and-bust cycle?
This caused oil and gas prices to drop and many Texans in the oil industry were forced to leave the state in search of new economic opportunities
What is when OPEC lifted the embargo?
A type of agriculture where crops or livestock are raised on a massive scale for the main purpose of selling them for profit
What is commercial farming?
The first and only female pediatric surgeon in Texas in 1958
Who is Dr. Benjy Brooks?
This person invented the integrated silicon circuit
Who is Jack Kilby?
A downturn in the economy
What is a recession?
A method used to get natural gas and oil out of deep underground rock layers called shale
What is fracking?
An artificial, human-made method of supplying water to soil or land
What is an irrigation system?
The first U.S. surgeon to perform a heart transplant in 1968
This company developed the first transistor radio.
Who is Texas Instruments?
The process of moving to a new country with the intention of living there permanently
The process of using specialized ships or platforms to drill deep holes into the ocean floor
What is deep sea drilling?
A farm where the majority of the business—including ownership, management, and daily decision-making—is run by a person and their relatives
What is a Family Owned Farm?
Name the hospital closest to us.
What is CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Alice?
This caused Texas to integrate into the global economy
What is the technology boom?