Coastal Plains
Name all the major cities
Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin
This city is a hub in the North Central Plains.
What is Fort Worth?
These are the cities in the Great Plains.
What is Amarillo / Lubbock / Midland / Odessa?
This is the only major city in this region.
What is El Paso?
This Southeastern tribe was matrilineal.
Who are the Caddo?
Why is this region the most populated?
Because of mild climate, rivers, and resources.
The main industry in this region is ______.
What is ranching/farming?
Name all three major industries in the Great Plains.
What is oil, farming, and ranching?
Name one landmark.
Big Bend / Guadalupe Mountains
This Gulf tribe used alligator grease to keep away mosquitos.
Who are the Karankawa?
What natural disaster is the Coastal Plains most at risk for, and why?
Hurricanes, because it borders the Gulf of Mexico
The major cities of the North Central Plains.
Wichita Falls, Abilene, and Fort Worth
These two industries in the Great Plains and North Central Plains have in common.
Farming and Ranching.
Describe the environment (landform + climate).
Desert, mountains, hot days
These Puebloan tribes built adobe homes.
Who are the Jumano / Tigua / Concho?
Why do more people live in the Coastal Plains than in the Mountains & Basins?
Because of rivers, fertile soil, lower elevation, and plentiful rainfall
Describe the climate here.
mild to moderate rainfall, some humidity.
This region has little vegetation because of ______
Low Rainfall
This region has the highest ______ in Texas
Elevation
Plains tribes lived in tipis because they were ______.
Nomadic.
Explain why the elevation is lower here than in other regions.
Because it borders the Gulf of Mexico.
Why does it become more rural as you move west?
Less rainfall/resources.
Why did tribes here rely heavily on buffalo?
For food, clothing, shelter, tools.
How did the Puebloan people survive with little rain?
Irrigation from Rio Grande.
Compare one similarity between Gulf and Plains tribes.
Both were nomadic and used natural resources to adapt