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Natural Texas and its People
1. What is history?
2. Why do we study history?
3. What is an “era”?
4. What is “chronological”?
5. Which type of graph would you use to show parts of a whole?
6. Which item shows events in “chronological” order?
7. What is “geography”?
8. Which type of “geography” includes the study of cultures?
9. List the 5 themes of geography.
10. Which theme deals with where a place is on the earth’s surface?
11. Name one of the tools of geography.
12. Which tool is spherical in shape?
13. List the 4 states that border Texas.
14. What is the name of the country that borders Texas?
15. How many regions of Texas are there? List the regions.
16. Which region is the largest in size and population?
17. Why does this region get the most rainfall?
18. Which region has plenty of wide open spaces used for agriculture?
19. What is the largest city in this agricultural region?
20. Which region has cooler temperatures because it is higher in elevation? Name 1 city
in this region.
21. Which region is the smallest, the driest, and the least populated region of Texas?
Name the only major city in this region.
22. HOW did early people migrate from Asia to North America?
23. WHY did early people migrate from Asia to North America?
24. What did early people do for food BEFORE they learned to farm?
25. How did learning to farm change the culture of early people?
26. Name the 4 different culture groups of native Texans.
27. How does WHERE you live determine HOW you live?
28. Name one of the tribes in the Southeastern culture group. What did this culture
group do for food?
29. Describe the style of home used by the Pueblo culture group.
30. What did this culture group do for food?
31. Describe the location in Texas where the “Gulf” culture group lived..What did this
culture group do for food?
32. What type of home did people in the Plains culture group live in? What did this
culture group do for food?