Unit 2 Review (Carter TX History)

Regions of Texas

100

What are the 4 regions of Texas?

Mountains & Basins

Great Plains

North Central Plains

Coastal Plains

200

Which of the following regions would be best for a timber industry?

Coastal Plains

300

 Which region has the lowest population, experiences the least annual rainfall, and has a dry and arid climate?

Mountains and Basins

400

As you Travel West to East The Elevation in Texas does what?

Decreases

500

Areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics, human impact characteristics, and the interaction of humanity and the environment.

Region

Vocabulary

100

Define Human Characteristics?

Human characteristics of places include the language, religion, political systems, economic systems, population distribution, ethnicity, age, and standards of living.

200

Define Nomadic

Moving from place to place

300

Define Sedentary 

Living in one place, not moving from place to place.

400

Define Physical Characteristics?

physical characteristics of places include landforms and soils, bodies and sources of water, vegetation, climate, weather patterns, and animal life.

500

Mud brick homes built by sedentary cultures like the Tigua and Jumano.

Adobe

Native People of Texas

100

• What Culture is described? 
•  nomadic and hunters/gatherers 
• Karankawa – Southeast, used dugout canoes to fish and hunt small animals. Cabeza de Vaca wrote about Karankawas.
  • Coalhuiltecan – South Texas, ate bugs and small animals
  • Atakapan – hunted small animals and fished in dugout canoes, some farming

Gulf Culture

200

what Native culture is described?

 sedentary, farmers, and lived in houses made of adobe

• Jumano – farmed, hunted, traded, and lived in painted adobe homes
• Tigua – known for their beautiful pottery

Puebloan Culture

300

What Native American Culture is Described?

• sedentary food-rich environment and complex social systems
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  • Caddo – built dome shaped huts, organized government system led by a chief, women played important roles, greeted Europeans with the word Tejas, which means friends
  • Wichita – hunted buffalos, grew crops, and known for the tattoos around their eyes known as “raccoon eyes”

Southeastern Culture

400

what culture is described? 

nomadic, dependent on the buffalo, and were fierce warriors

• Comanche – used every part of the buffalo, lived in tipis, domesticated animals before horses were introduced to the area by the Europeans
• Apache – used buffalo hide as protection from the harsh landscape. For part of the year lived in farming communities along rivers and streams called rancherias.
• Kiowa – recorded oral histories on their tipis, made beautiful crafts, developed a calendar, and were the most-feared group on the plains

Plains Culture

500

How did the first native group of people get to Texas?

Bering Strait (Land Bridge) (Ice Age)

Practice Questions

100

The Buffalo were the life source to this Native American Group?

The Comanche & Apache

200

What type of Life style did the southeaster culture live?

Sedentary Farmers

300

Houston, Galveston, Corpus Christy are what kind of Cities?

Port Cities

400

The Gulf Culture natives were Nomadic due to what Natural Disaster 

Hurricanes

500

What made Adobe houses great for the Puebloan people

Cool during the summer and warm during the winter

Random

100

Capital of Texas

Austin

200

Carter JH is in what Region

North Central Plans

300

All the rivers in Texas Flow into this large body of water?

Gulf of Mexico

400

Midland and Odessa are in what Region

Great Plains

500

How can Magic Goats Never Cry help you? what does it mean?

Helps you remember the 4 regions of Texas

Mountains and Basins

Great Plains 

North Central Plains

Coastal Plains