Texas History Unit 1 and 2 exam

What are the 5 themes of geography

Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, movement, Region

This theme answers the question, “Where is it?”

Location

This is a place’s exact position on Earth, often using latitude and longitude coordinates. For example, a street address or GPS coordinates.

Absolute Location

This descries a place by relating it to another location. For example,  “Texas is south of Oklahoma.”

Relative Location

This theme describes what a location is like.

Place

This includes landforms, climate, vegetation, and wildlife.

Physical Characteristics

This includes language, religion, culture, and architecture.

Human Characteristics

This theme explains the relationship between humans and their natural surroundings

Human-Environment Interaction

Within this theme (Human-Environment Interaction) there are three things that explain it

How people ADAPT to their environment (building houses to withstand hurricanes)

How people DEPEND on their environment (using a river for drinking water)

How people MODIFY their environment (building dams or roads)

This theme analyzes how and why people, goods, and ideas move from one place to another.

Movement

??? migrate for jobs or better living conditions.

PEOPLE

??? are shipped from factories to stores.

GOODS

??? spread through communication, like the internet.

IDEAS

This theme defines an area that has unifying characteristics

Region

These are defined by governmental or administrative boundaries (Texas, the United States)

Formal Regions

These are organized around a central point (a city and its suburbs)

Functional Regions

These are defined by people’s feelings and attitudes (the South)

Perceptual Regions

These are a set of tools used by geographers to study and understand the world. The provide a network about places and how people live.

The five themes of geography.

The four regions of Texas are

Coastal Plains, Great Plains, North Central Plains, Mountains and Basins

Coastal plains climate

Humid, subtropical. 

Which climate receives the most rainfall?

Coastal plains

Great Plains Climate

Dry, continental.

Which climate has hot summers and cold winters?

Great Plains

North Central Plains climate

Sub-humid, temperate

Mountains and Basins climate

Desert climate with extreme temperatures

Which is the driest region?

Mountains and Basins

Which climate grows citrus, grapefruits, lemons, and oranges

Coastal plains

Which climate has prairies, short grasses and scattered brush

Great Plains

Which climate has rolling hills, prairies, and forests of oak and pecan trees

North Central Plains

Which climate has sparse desert plants like cacti, yucca and agave.

Mountains and Basins

Which regions have economic activity in oil and gas, shipping, fishing, space centers, technology, and citrus

Coastal Plains

Which regions have economic activity in agriculture (wheat, cotton, and sorghum)

Great Plains

Which regions have economic activity in Ranching (livestock) and farming (grains)

North Central Plains

Which regions have economic activity in Oil and gas and trade (USMCA)

Mountains and Basins

What major city is in the Coastal Plains

Houston

What major city is in the Graet Plains

Amarillo

What major city is in the North Central Plains

Fort Worth

What major city is in the Mountains and Basins

El Paso

Most populated region in Texas that is prone to hurricanes

Coastal Plains

This region is often called the “Breadbasket of the world”

Great Plains

This region is the cowboy way of life

North Central Plains

This region contains the highest point in Texas, Guadalupe Peak. Home to the Chihuahua Desert.

Mountains and Basins

These native Tribes lived in East Texas, Coastal Plains region

Caddo

The Caddo were an ???? tribe

agricultural

What did the Caddo farm?

corn, beans, squash

The Caddo were known for building large

ceremonial mounds

The Caddo had a 

complex society of confederacies

This tribe lived in South Texas

Coahuiltecan

The Coahuiltecan tribe were ???

nomadic hunter gatherers.

What did the Coahuiltecan tribe survive on

small game (rabbits) and plants in a very harsh, dry environment.

This tribe lives in the coastal plains of East Texas and Louisiana.

Atakapa

The Atakapa tribe were ???

nomadic hunter gatherers

What type of environment did the Atakapa tribe live in?

marshy, wooded areas

What did the Atakapa tribe relied on

hunting and fishing for survival. they ate alligators and used their oil as a repellant

This tribe lived along the Texas Gulf Coast and the barrier islands

Karankawa

The Karankawa tribe were ???

nomadic hunter gatherers

The Karankawa tribe used large ???? to fish and travel along the coast and bayous.

dugout canoes

This tribe lived in the Great Plains of Texas

Comanche

The Comanche were a powerful ???

nomadic tribe of skilled horse riders

The Comanche would follow

buffalo and hunt them.

This tribe was known as fierce warriors

Comanche

This tribe lives in West Texas near the Rio Grande River

Jumano

The Jumano were a ????

nomadic tribe mainly and traders

The Jumano lived in ???? with ???? houses

village; adobe

This tribe acted as middlemen in trade with other tribes

Jumano

This tribe was known for their face markings

Jumano