Environment
What is Environment?
Environment is what makes up where and how you live.
When certian powers or duties are assinged to specific branches of government. (Many countries including the US are this)
Federalists/Federalism
How do we know about MOST things happening in the world? Past or Present?
Some type of media - Newspapers, books, social media, word of mouth, stone tablets, blue prints, or just anything that can pass along info.
What happened first? The Great Depression or The Age of the Dinosaur
The Age of the Dinosaur
Decade
10 years
What states and countries is Texas close to?
Louisianna, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Mexico
a representative government
a Republic
How do we know about the Alamo besides textbooks?
There are numerous letters/diaries that survived the battle, artifacts saved from the fight, as well as many museums and the Alamo itself that preserve a lot of documents and artifacts from that time.
Daily Double: What happened first? Age of Contact or Age of Exploration
Age of Exploration
Century
100 years
How do you describe the texas environment?
Diverse
Daily Double: The expectation of "Rule by the People." Or "of the people, for the people, by the people"
Popular Sovereignty
How could we learn about the Pueblonian Culture?
Finding old Pueblo Houses and other artifacts buried in the areas they inhabited.
What happened first? Cortez Conquering the Aztec Empire or Cabeza De Vaca Exploring around Texas to meet Native Americans and the lost cities of gold
Cortez Conquering the Aztec (1519)
Kiloannum or Millennium
1000 years
How do you describe Texas resources?
Diverse
3 branches of government
Executive - President, advisors, cabinet. - Power to enforce laws and manage policy.
Legislative - Senate and Congress. - The power to discuss and talk about laws before turning them into a bill for approval.
Judicial - Judges and courts. - Power to judge if a law is appropriate or constitutional. Power to interpret and apply the laws.
What tools do we use to learn about the Climate of an Area?
Themometer - Temperature
Barometer - atmospheric pressure
Hygrometer - measures humidity
Analyze historical records
reading geological surveys of the are over time
What came first? Empresario System or the Mission System?
Mission System
An organized Historical period
Era
2nd in the US and 8th in the World
Why do we have government?
The same reason that a game has rules and organization. To avoid chaos.
Daily Triple: How do we know the age of a tree?
We can drill a hole and take out a core or if the tree is chopped down we can read its rings to see things like age and even certian climate events and when they happened.
What came first? The Chicken or The Egg
The Chicken
To organize things by date
Chronology