Vocab
What is resources?
Which region are Houston and Galveston Island Located?
What is Gulf Coastal Plains?
The Puebloan tribes lived in this kind of housing.
What is adobe?
This freedom allows us to obtain information from diverse sources, make decisions, and communicate with others freely.
What is Free Speech?
The need for additional infrastructure (roads, government buildings, more police, etc) is caused by this.
Hint: We are growing
What is growth of Texas cities?
This word means a group of people, animals, or something else that differ from one another.
What is diverse?
What is Mountains and Basins?
Tribes that lived in portable teepees and hunted buffalo are considered this.
What is nomadic?
Which branch of government deals with civil and criminal cases?
What is the Judicial Branch?
Making sure you turn off your faucet, or fix a leaky faucet, is an example of Texans playing an active role in the management of the state's __________________.
Hint: Water, wood, energy, etc.
What is future resources?
This word means money collected by the government through taxes.
What is revenue?
Loss of lives and resources, unusable transportation systems, homes destroyed and businesses closed are all effects of this.
What is extreme weather?
Tribes that lived in homes and farmed are considered this.
What is sedentary?
This major sources of revenue for state and local government is sales tax, federal funds, fees, and _____________.
What is property taxes?
This type of local government has four commissioners and a judge, provides for public safety, registers voters, and provides emergency services.
What is county?
This word means that a law is considered unfair, not agreeing with the constitution.
What is Unconstitutional?
The location of Texas contributes to its _________ weather patterns. (Because of how large we are)
Hint: Is weather the same in each region?
What is diverse?
What factor contributed most to the differences among these Texas American Indian cultures?
What is the geography of the region in which they lived?
These kinds of groups focus on only one topic or issue and try to influence the government to pass laws about it.
Ex: Using cell phones while driving is dangerous.
What is special interest groups?
What is Federalism?
This word means a distribution of power in an organization between a central authority and the constituents. (duties divided between National, State and Local)
What is Federalism?
Geography impacts the economic ($$$$) development of Texas because of this.
What is the land offers valuable resources that provide jobs for people?
The geography of the region tribes lived in contributed most significantly to this.
Hint: think food, clothing, houses.
What is culture/survival?
An example of checks and balances that involves the judicial branch.
Hint: Is the law fair or not?
What is the Supreme Court can declare a law unconstitutional?
What is a form of government in which the people choose leaders by voting?