Lines of longitude run...
What is north and south (or up and down)?
The hemispheres, continent, and country that Texas is located in
What are the north and western hemispheres, North America, and the United States?
This person invented the microchip
Who was Jack Kilby?
A group of people who make and enforce rules for a community
What is a government?
This type of map shows borders, cities, and capitals
What is a political map?
Lines of latitude run...
What is east to west (or side to side)?
The three rivers that border Texas
What are the Rio Grande, the Red River, and the Sabine River?
This person researched the human body in space
Who was Millie-Hughes Fulford?
The type of government Texas and the United States have
What is a democracy?
This region of Texas is essentially a desert
What is the Mountains and Basins region?
This type of map shows landforms such as mountains, rivers, lakes, plateaus, deserts, etc
What is a physical map?
This region gets the most amount of rain
Someone who gives their money away so they can help others
What is a philanthropist?
This level of government makes and enforces laws for the entire country
What is the national government?
What is the federal government?
A person who risks their own money to invest in a business and make a profit
What is an entrepreneur?
This helps a map reader orient themselves and find direction.
What is the compass rose?
Non-renewable energy sources in Texas
What are oil and natural gas?
Economic freedom, voluntary exchange, private property, and profit motive are elements of...
What is a market economy?
This document lists the rights citizens automatically have
What is the Bill of Rights?
These cities are heavy in the aerospace industry
What are Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston?
This helps a map reader understand the symbols on a map
What is a map legend/key?
Ways people in Texas meet their need for water
What is...?
-irrigation
-dams
-reservoirs
-digging wells
-pumping water from aquifers
A relationship where each country in the world needs and depends on each other
What is interdependence?
This document explains how the government will be set up
What is the Constitution?
This branch of government writes the laws.
This branch of government enforces the laws.
The branch of government judges the laws.
What is the legislative branch?
What is the executive branch?
What is the judicial branch?