Explorers
Natives
Oil
Terrain
Vocab
100

The name of the French explorer who explored the Mississippi for France?

Who is La Salle

100

Coastal Tribe with kyaks

Who are the Karakawa

100

Where oil was discovered in Texas

What is Spindletop

100

This happens to precipitation as you go west

What is it decreases

100

Water is traveled inland through pipes 

What is irrigation

200

Famous explorer and advocate for natives

Who is Cabeza De Vaca

200

Famous for their face marking and being traders

Who are the Jumano

200

Name for the byproducts produced by refining oil

what are petrochemicals

200

This happens to elevation as you go west

What is it increases

200

A land owner that grants land for the Mexican govenrment

What  is an Emprssario

300

Where Cabeza De Vaca was shipwrecked

What is Galveston

300

Largest group of natives in Texas at the time

Who are the Commanche

300

The reason that oil is so important

What is fueling for automobiles

300

The biggest region of Texas

What are the Coastal Plains

300

A revolt against a government

What is a revolution

400

They mapped the Gulf Coast

Who is Pineda

400

When something does not have a specified home

What is nomadic

400

where oil is refined

what is a refinery

400

The most populous region of Texas 

what are the Coastal Plains

400

A newly formed country after a revolution

What is a republic

500

The place that Cortes looked famed for its gold

What is El Dorado

500

When something stays in one area

What is sedentary

500

The cause of the population boom in Beaumont 

What is oil found in Spindletop

500

The driest region of Texas

What are the Mountains & Basins Region

500

The name for a large area of a bigger area with its own characteristics

what is a region