Geography
Important Dates/Eras
Natural Texas and its People: (Regions)
Natural Texas and its People: (Indians)
Terms
100

Where the Guadalupe Mountains are found.

What is the Mountains and Basin Region?

100

American Civil War began

What is 1861

100

Name the 4 Texas Regions

-Coastal Plains

-North Central Plains

-Great Plains

-Mountains and Basins 

100

Name the 4 Indian Culture Groups?

-Gulf Culture

-Southeastern Culture 

-Plains Culture

-Puebloan Culture

100

The Caddo prevented the soil from wearing out.

What is Crop Rotation?

200

Texas' longest river and forms a border between Texas and Mexico.

What is the Rio Grande?

200

The significance of 1718

What is the founding of the city of San Antonio?

200

Name the largest cities in the Coastal Plains Region.

San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, and Austin

200

All Plains Indians have these things in common.

What is living off buffalo, using horses, and living on the plains?

200

Historian who studies objects from the past that people leave behind.

What is an Archaeologist?

300

Where the Big Thicket National Preserve is located.

What are the Gulf Costal Plains?

300

Petroleum deposits were discovered in Beaumont.

What is the Age of Oil?

300

Which Region tends to have thunderstorms and Tornadoes

North Central Plains

300

Which Culture Group/Tribe lived in adobe homes?

-Pueblo

(Jumano & Tigua)

300

Tool or object that gives historians clues about the past

What is an Artifact?

400

Describe the Climate in each of the 4 Regions

CP- Hot, Humid, lots of rivers

GP- Grasslands/Hot

NCP- Thunderstorms/Tornadoes/Hillside 

MB- Hot/Dry/ Moiuntains 

400

Texas became part of the United States.

What is Early Statehood?

400

Which Region has the highest elevation and hottest climate?

Mountains and Basins

400

Name 3 Tribes that lived in Tepees and were nomad

-Apache

-Comanche

-Kiowa

400

The time period of history before writing was invented.

What is Prehistory?

500

Big Bend national park is located in which Texas Region?

What is Mountains and Basins Region?
500

Texas broke away from Mexico and became an independent.

What is Revolution and Republic?

500

How would you decribe the Era "Natural Texas and Its People"

Different Native American tribes learned how to adapt to different Texas climate

500

Which Tribes/Culture Group lived in Coastal Plains and used Dugout Canoes and Nets

Gulf Coast

-Karankawa

-Atakapan

-Coahuiltecan

500

The government is supposed to have little to no role in the economy.

What is Free Enterprise System?

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