Vocabulary
What is a homeland?
a person’s or people’s native land
Alabama and Coushatta
How many regions in Texas?
4 regions
Railroads and trains
What is a geographer?
a person who studies the earth and the people in it
What is adapted?
become adjusted to new condition
What is one is factor that American Indians had to adapt and modify when they moved to a new environment?
language, marriage, hunting, farming, etc...
What are the names of the 4 regions?
Mountain and Basin, Coastal Plains, Central Plains, and Great Plains
The establishment of railroads helped create?
Growth
What is modified?
make limited or minor changes to something
They lost their homeland in a battle, no basic needs, or diseases.
Mountain and Basin Region
What year or time frame was the railroad built or established?
1800's or 1881
On a map, what are the lines that go from north to south (top to bottom)?
Latitude lines
combine into one
food, shelter, water
Far West Texas is in the Coastal Plains? True or False?
False, it is in the Mountain and Basins
What are some things the railroad help transfer from place to place?
cattle, food, people, material, natural resources
Longitude lines
What is a waterway?
freshwater. A river, canal or other route for travel by water.
What did the American Indians practice?
Agriculture
What American Indian tribe first originated in Far West Texas (El Paso)?
Ysleta del Sur Pueblo
What did not influence the patterns of settlement and the distribution of population in Texas?
money or landforms
landforms