Measuring Time in History
This is a span of years noted for its events, people, or characteristics.
What is an era
This region of Texas is located in the far west and includes desert plants and the Chisos Mountains.
What is the Mountains and Basins region?
This city is the largest in Texas, with more than 2.3 million people.
What is Houston?
This is the longest river in Texas.
What is the Rio Grande?
This era in Texas lasted from 1690 to 1821.
What is the Spanish Colonial Era?
This term describes knowing when events happened in relation to other events.
What is relative chronology?
The Texas Panhandle is part of this larger region, also known as the "breadbasket of the world."
What are the Great Plains?
This city began as a cotton market.
What is Dallas?
This mountain is the highest point in Texas.
What is the Guadalupe Peak?
What is the 1900 Galveston hurricane (Galveston hurricane of 1900)?
What is absolute chronology?
This region has rolling plains, mesas, and the great city of Fort Worth.
What are the North Central Plains?
What is Fort Worth?
Most lakes in Texas were formed by this.
What is human action (man-made)?
In the 1930s, this environment disaster nearly destroyed farming in the Great Plains?
What is a drought (Dust Storm)?
The calendar most people use today was introduced in 1582 by this Catholic Church leader.
Who was Pope Gregory XIII?
The Coastal Plains region is prone to these weather events from the Gulf of Mexico.
What are tropical storms (or hurricanes)?
This city began as an agricultural center.
What is Arlington?
This rock resource is used in Texas to make paper and to purify water.
What is limestone?
Breezes from this body of water help cool Texas summers and warm its winters.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
A modern history textbook would be an example of this type of source.
What is a secondary source?
The Rio Grande provides this natural feature between Texas and Mexico.
What is a border?
Thousands of Texans work in this industry, found in both West Texas and the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the oil industry?
These underground water sources, which are drawn out of rock underground, are an excellent source of clean and fresh water.
What are aquifers?
Texas lies in this latitude zone, about halfway between the Equator and the North Pole.
What are the midlatitudes?