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The most populous region
What are the Gulf Coastal Plains?
This sums up most of the North Central Plains
What are the Piney Woods?
Became the first African American woman from a southern state to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Balcones and Caprock escarpments separate it from the rest of Texas
What are the North Central Plains?
What is the salad bowl theory?
1980 - Became the first person of Hispanic background to be elected mayor of a large U.S. city (San Antonio) - at the time was the 9th largest city in the United States
How do you define Culture?
Famous Texas politician who served first in the Texas Senate, where he filibustered for more than 20 hours against segregation, then served as a U.S. Representative for more than 30 years from the San Antonio district
What is Henry B. Gonzalez
Looking at the connections between Americans and the other people in the world.
What is the Global education?
Democrat, was elected tot he House of Representatives where he served for 48 years (and with eight presidents) many of those as the speaker of the House or as the Minority Leader under Republican control of the House
What is Sam Rayburn
What is Irma Rangel
A heart wrenching non-fiction true story that tells the true story of a young girl who lived in Hiroshima in 1945 during the bombing, she was diagnosed with cancer but had the ultimate wish to live. In order for that wish to be granted, she had to make 1,000 paper cranes.
What was Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes?
Tips of volcanoes that make up islands, also the 50th state of USA.
What are the Hawaiian Islands?
Frozen masses of fresh water tat move slowly over land cut deep lakes and valleys in the northeastern and northwestern parts of the country like the Great Lakes.
What are glaciers?
Valleys that filled with water.
What are Fjords?
What are plate tectonics?
What is James A. Baker III
How physical factors like mountains and rivers help set the boundaries of nations
What is Cultural geography?
How the exchange of ideas, thought processes, inventions, beliefs, agricultures and so on, spread as groups of people come into contact with other groups of people.
What is Cultural diffusion?
The average wether conditions over a long period pf time, taking into account temperatures, wind, and amounts of precipitation.
What is climate?
The atmospheric conditions during a short period of time, can change day to day.
What is weather?
Any material supplied by the earth
What is a natural resource?
First female senator from Texas and is currently the most senior Republican female senator
What is Kay Bailey Hutchison
Polar regions, temperate regions and tropics
What are the three general regions of climate?
marine, continental, desert, and mountain.
What are temperate climates?
An imaginary circle on the surface of the earth, equal distance from each pole and dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
Imaginary horizontal circle around the earth north of the Equator 23.5 N that marks the northern boundary of the tropics.
Tropic of Cancer
Imaginary circle south 23.5S of the Equator that marks the southern boundary of the tropics.
Tropic of Capricorn
State Capital, named after Stephen F. Austin, who gained land grants for the first group of American colonists in Texas ("The Old Three Hundred")
What is Austin
hot, humid and wet.
resources that attract people to an area
What is a pull factor?
Lack or loss of resources, people want to leave that area
Resources that can be replaced in the foreseeable future.
Renewable resources
Resources that are minerals in the earth's crust, fossil fuels.
What are nonrenewable resources?
Motto, coming from the original word for Texas (Tejas) which is what the Caddo Nation called its tribes - Friends
Land that is suitable for farming
What is arable land?
The process of using water to turn wheels and generate electricity
Hydroelectric power
Areas that develop because of their location has good harbor or waterways.
What are Port cities?
Unpredictable occurrences that happen when nature creates a disaster such as an earthquake landslide, erosion or weather disasters.
What are natural hazards?
Acids that have returned into precipitation
Acid rain
State song
What is Texas, Our Texas
Local health department and federal agency that monitors air and water.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
Who has lived across space and time from them is through non-fiction stories?
What is Sadako and the Thousand paper cranes
An African American artist and illustrator, collaborated on picture books such as Moses.
What is Kadir Nelson
African American dancer and choreographer is famous for his work "Revelations."
What is Alvin Ailey
Who was a larger then life lumberjack in a tale?
What is Paul Bunyan
State bird
What is Mockingbird
A traditional literature with strong appeal to children
What is Folktales
A hero of the people who cut off a demons arm in epic
What is Beowulf
Who planted tress across the west?
What is Johnny Appleseed
Was a slave and a storyteller who lived in Ancient Greece
What is Aesop
What are some of the oldest examples of traditional literature?
What is Myth
State flower, the brilliant blue wildflower that covers a great part of the state in the spring, giving some fields almost the allusion of being a lake of blue
What is bluebonnet
What are the long stories that are ground mythology?
What is Epics
Stories that are supposedly based on real individuals or event.
What is legend?
A story that is exaggerated and often humorous versions of legends.
What is tall tales
The most famous collection of fairy tales was publish in Germany by 2 brothers
What is Brothers Grimm
The best known collection of fables
What is Aesop's Fables
Wrote The Legend of the Bluebonnet, a poignant tale of a young Comanche girl's sacrifice for her tribe. DePaola also wrote Strega Nona
What is Tomie dePaola
Served as the conceptual artist for Spielberg winning two academy award
What is Just the Two of Us
Who perfected cowboys skill?
What is Pecos Bill
Sovereign and leader of the nights of the round table in england
What is King Arthur
Many other books that are almost required children's reading
What is Bill Martin Jr.
Created the Little house on the Prairie series of book
What is Laurie Ingalls Wilder
Exceptional illustrator with her books remembering her Hispanic roots
What is Carmen Lomas Garza