Texas Geography
Texas Native Cultures
Texas Native Tribes
Spanish Explorers
Definitions
100

One of the main cities in this area is Houston

Coastal Plains

100

This tribe survived by hunting, gathering, and fishing and traveled with canoes.

Gulf Culture
100

The Comanche, Apache and Kiowa all rely heavily on this animal.

Buffalo

100

This was the Spanish explorer who is credited with the first map of the Texas Coastline.

Alvares de Pineda

100
This term means to move around

Nomadic

200

This is the furthest West region in Texas

Mountains and Basins

200

This Culture lived in teepee villages.

Plains Culture

200

One way the Karankawa people adapted to their environment was making this out of trees.

Hollowed out Canoes

200

This explorer was captured and enslaved by Karankawa Indians

Cabeza de Vaca

200

Traveling in order to discover new places, people or resources.

Exploration

300

Increases or decreases: as you move further west in Texas, the elevation _____.

Increases

300

This Native American culture built adobe houses

Puebloan Culture

300

Name the three crops cultivated by the southeastern Culture Indians.

Corns, Bean, Squash

300

This explorers journal was published with the first narrative that described Texas and its native people.

Cabeza de Vaca

300

A country or group of people take complete control over another group’s land

Conquer

400
Lubbock and Amarillo are the main cities in this region.

Great Plains

400
Name one of the Cultures that is sedentary

Puebloan or Southeastern

400

Women were very important role in this southeastern culture.

Caddo Tribe

400

This explorer arrived in Texas in 1519

Alvares de Pineda

400
This term means to stay in one place rather than move around.

Sedentary

500

This river creates the border between Texas and Oklahoma.

Red River

500

Gulf Culture and Plains Culture Indian tribes share this trait.

Nomadic

500

This tribe lived in this southeastern part of Texas and the Southwestern part of Louisiana.

Atakapan

500

This was the name of the African slave that was enslaved with Cabeza de Vaca

Estavanico

500

long period of time defined by shared characteristics or major events.

Era

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