Texas Regions
What are the four geographic regions of Texas?
Mountains and Basins, Great Plains, North Central Plains, and Coastal Plains.
Caddo Indians lived in this region
What is Coastal Plains
What large body of water borders Texas to the southeast?
The Gulf of Mexico
How did Indians survive in early Texas
What is adapting to the environment
What are the 3Gs?
What is God, Gold, and Glory
Which Texas region includes Big Bend National Park?
Mountains and Basins.
Comanches live in this region
What is Great Plains
What river forms part of the natural boundary between Texas and Mexico?
The Rio Grande.
The Kiowa and Apache had this in common
What is hunted buffalo
This is the year Pineda mapped the coastline of Texas
1519
which region has more rivers: Mountain and Basin or Coastal Plains
Coastal Plains
Jumanos live in this region
What is Mountain and Basins
What river forms part of the boundary between Texas and Oklahoma?
The Red River.
Coahuiltecan and Karankawas have this similarity
What is they both were nomads along the Gulf Coast
Where did Cabeza de Vaca and the survivors of his expedition land after their shipwreck?
Along the Texas Gulf Coast.
Which region is the largest of the four regions of Texas?
Great Plains
This Indian group was traders
Jummanos
Which Texas region is most likely to experience hurricanes because it is along the Gulf Coast?
Coastal Plains.
How did the Caddo's environment influence their way of life?
Their wetter, forested environment allowed them to farm crops such as corn and live in more permanent settlements.
Which explorer shipwrecked in Matagorda Bay?
Who was La Salle
Which region has the flattest land and is closest to the Gulf of Mexico?
Coastal Plains.
If you travel from East to West across Texas, what will the elevation do?
What is start low and end higher
If you lived in an area with little rainfall, mountains, and desert land, which Texas region would you most likely live in?
Mountains and Basins.
How did the Karankawa's location along the Gulf Coast affect their way of life?
They used coastal resources such as fish, shellfish, and other animals and moved from place to place as they followed resources.
What did the Spanish bring with them that negatively affected the Native Americans of Texas?
Disease: Smallpox, measles, typhus, whooping cough, etc.