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Natural Texas and its People 209
By Emily Ryan
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Question 1
1.
What is an example of Texans adapting to their environment in the hot regions of Texas?
People cut down trees in the rainforest to build homes.
Families built log cabins using the many trees found on the plains.
People built adobe houses because there were few or no trees.
Anglo families hired Native Americans to build brick homes.
Question 2
2.
What region has a hot and humid climate and is likely to have tropical storms
Coastal Plains
Central Plains
Mountains and Basins
Great Plains
Question 3
3.
Which Texas region has vast plains that buffalo used for grazing?
Great Plains
Mountains and Basins
Coastal Plains
Central Plains
Question 4
4.
Which region has the cities of Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Austin, and Corpus Christi?
Mountains and Basins
Coastal Plains
Central Plains
Great Plains
Question 5
5.
What Indian tribe AND Texas region is shown in the picture?
Apache/Great Plains
Karankawa/Coastal Plains
Karankawa/Central Plains
Jumano/Mountains and Basins
Question 6
6.
Which Native American tribe hunted buffalo?
Jumano
Comanche
Karankawa
Caddo
Question 7
7.
How did the lives of hunter-gatherers differ from those of Native American farmers?
Farmers were more likely to be nomadic and move frequently
Hunter gatherers had more access to food all year long
Hunter gatherers were more likely to be nomadic and move frequently
Farming Native Americans lived exclusively in the Gulf Coastal Plains
Question 8
8.
Which of the following IS NOT a way humans have adapted to the environment?
Natives dug irrigation systems to water plants
Building a seawall in Galveston to protect from hurricanes
Natives spread Christianity to the French
Construction of adobe homes by the Pueblo culture
Question 9
9.
Why did the Indian cultures in Texas develop different styles of housing such as teepees, wigwams, and adobe bricks?
Indian cultures built their homes according to Spanish architecture styles
The physical geography and resources varied across the regions of Texas
Each Indian culture had a different religion that influenced their homes
All Indian cultures in Texas built the same style of home
Question 10
10.
Which of the following about this map of human migration is true?
The first people of Texas used a raft and landed near Florida
The Bering Land Bridge exists today
The first people of Texas followed large mammals across the Bering Land Bridge that once connected Siberia to Alaska
Question 11
11.
What native tribe lived in adobe homes?
Jumano
Caddo
Apache
All of the above
Question 12
12.
What region of Texas experiences the most rainfall?
North Central Plains
Coastal Plains
Mountains and Basins
Great Plains
Question 13
13.
Which of the following correctly list the regions of Texas from
lowest
elevation to the
highest
?
Great Plains, North Central Plains, Mountains and basins, Coastal Plains
Coastal Plains, North Central Plains, Great Plains, Mountains and Basins
Mountains and Basins, Great Plains, North Central Plains, Coastal Plains
All of Texas has the same geography and is the same elevation
Question 14
14.
Which Tribe is being described by the image?
Karankawa
Apache
Caddo
Jumano
Question 15
15.
Based on our studies what is this map showing you?
The elevation of Texas
The precipitation of Texas
The regions of Texas
Question 16
16.
What is our vocabulary term that describes a person that does not stay in one place and follows their food supply?
Nomad
Sedentary
Wanderer
Agriculture
Question 17
17.
Supplying an area with water to make the area more suitable for agriculture is known as...
Precipitation
Farming
Irrigation
Matrillineal
