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100

This Spanish explorer shipwrecked in present-day Galveston and lived with the native people for 7 years.

Who is Cabeza de Vaca?

100

This is a particular position or point in space.

What is place?

100

This is the study of the Earth.

What is geography?

100

Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in this year.

What happened in 1492?

100

These are three major cities in Texas.

What the group gives and has multiple different answers.

200

This was the geographical region where they made Adobe houses (made out of clay).

What are the mountains and basins?

200

This describes how people move from one place to another.

What is movement?

200

The 7 continents of the world.

What are Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, Antarctica?

200

These were the three main reasons for exploration to America. This made the French money and was a main reasons they stayed in America.

What are gold, glory, and God? What is the fur trade?

200

These were the four Spanish and French explorers of Texas.

Who are La Salle, Coronado, Cebeza de Vaca, and Alonso Alvarez de Pineda?

300

This is how geography affected the Native Texan Tribes.

Multiple different answers

300

This is how people interact with the environment around them.

What is a human-environment interaction?

300

The 5 continents and the largest ocean.

What are Southern, Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic? What is the Pacific?

300

This was the reason why Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic and the ships that he sailed in.

What did Columbus' want to find a shorter route to Asia lead to? What were the La Nina, La Pinta, and La Santa Maria?

300

These are the four geographical regions of Texas.

What are the Great Plains, Gulf Coastal Plains, Basins and Mountains, and the North Central Plains?

400

These are three native tribes of Texas.

What are Caddo, Jimeno, Comanche, Apache, Kiowa, Wichita, Karokawa?

400

This is something that is grouped together due to common characteristics.

What is region?

400

These are the five regions of the United States.

What are the northeast, southeast, Midwest, southwest, and west?

400

This was the Columbian Exchange.

What is the exchange of goods, people, diseases, and ideas between Europe and America called?

400

These are primary and secondary sources.

What is the source called that came from the time period of the event and is a first-hand account of an historical event? What is a source called that is not a first-hand account and only talks about the event but was not there?

500

These are the two major tribes that lived in the Great Plains.

Who are the Caddo and Apaches?

500

The difference between relative and absolute location.

What is exact location and a location that gives landmarks or things nearby.

500

A mountain range in the United States.

What is the Appalachian Mountains or what is the Rocky Mountains?
500

These were the Conquistadors.

What were the people called who came from Spain and took over much of South and Central America and killed many people for it? They wanted to conquer America.

500

This lead to Texas being called the Lone Star State.

What did Texas' independence lead to its nickname being?