Regions of Texas
Guadalupe Peak is found in this region.
What is the Mountains and Basins Region?
Most Texas cities are located near these.
What are bodies of water?
Many different native Texan tribes in the Great Plains adapted to their environment by using this tool to hunt buffalo
What is a bow and arrow?
This tribe built grass huts and modified the land with burial mounds.
Who were the Caddo?
This Texas region is where cities like El Paso and Socorro are located. It has the highest elevations in the State.
What is the Mountains and Basins Region?
This large body of water borders the Southeast coast of Texas.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
A good example of this is the Caddo tribe building irrigation systems to water their farms.
What is modifying? (Or modification?)
This tribe was made of fierce warriors, and fought the Apache across the Great Plains.
Who were the Comanche?
The Alamo, NASA, and Seaworld are all located in this humid region.
What is the Coastal Plains region?
While the Coastal Plains region is very humid, the Mountains and Basins region is very _______ .
What is "arid"?
In order to adapt to their arid environment, the Jumano built homes out of this.
What is Adobe?
This tribe adapted to their wet, coastal environment by building canoes and becoming expert fishers.
Who were the Karankawa?
Storms and Tornadoes are common in this Texas region.
What is the North Central Plains region?
If you drive north to Oklahoma, you will cross this river.
What is the Red River?
Plains tribes relied on this animal, using every part in some way.
What is a buffalo?
This tribe had to adapt to the arid climate in the Mountains and Basins region, and traded minerals and precious stones like turquoise.
Who were the Jumano?
This region is characterized by cooler winters and flat plains. The Comanche and Apache tribes warred up and down this region, hunting buffalo.
What is the Great Plains region?
Fans of the New Orleans Saints in Louisiana will have to cross this river to get to the Superdome from Texas.
What is the Sabine River?
The Caddo tribe built this system throughout the North Central Plains to re-direct water to their corn and bean farms. This is a great example of modification.
What is irrigation?
The Caddo used this word as a greeting, and this is where we got the name "Texas" from!
What is "taysha"?