Texas Regions
What Region is the biggest in land and population
Coastal Plains
What River Separates Texas and Mexico?
Rio Grande
What culture group lived on the Coastal Plains? Their tribes include the Karankawa?
Gulf Culture Group
Who conquered the Aztecs?
Cortez
What are Spanish Missions?
churches used to convert Native Americans
What Region is in West Texas, with no water?
Mountains and Basins
What is the only city in the Mountains and Basins Region?
El Paso
What group lived in teepees and hunted buffalo? Tribes include Comanche and Apache
Plains Groups
Who mapped the Texas coast in 1519?
Pineda
What are Spanish presidios
forts
What Region is in the top middle part of Texas?
North Central Plains
What is the biggest city in all of Texas
Houston
What group lived in the Mountains in adobe houses?
Pueblo
Who looked for the cities of gold?
Coronado
Why did Spain build missions and presidios (besides converting Native Americans)
To keep France out of Texas
What Region is the northern most in Texas?
Great Plains
What river separates Texas and Oklahoma?
Red River
What group lived on the Central Plains? tribes include the Caddo
Southeastern
What French explorer shipwrecked in Texas?
La Salle
What was the first mission in Texas and where was it located (half points if half correct)
Which Region are Amarillo and Lubbock in?
Great Plains
What River Separates Texas and Louisiana?
Sabine River
How does where you live determine how you live?
What Spanish explorer shipwrecked in Texas?
Cabeza de Vaca
What was the first Mission in East Texas?
San Francisco de los Tejas