In the Beginning... | Love Me Some Terms! | Livin' Native Texan Style | Here and There | Gee, It's Geography! |
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What is the Bering Land Bridge?
How early humans migrated to North and South America
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What is a treaty?
A contract or agreement between nations or peoples
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What are nomads?
The food supply ran out in one place, so these people would move elsewhere
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What is the Mountains and Basins region?
The region of Texas with the least amount of precipitation
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What is the Prime Meridian?
The line which divides the earth into eastern and western hemispheres
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What is the Paleo-Indian period?
The earliest pre-historic period
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What is agriculture?
Farming and ranching
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What is agriculture?
This allowed early civilizations to stop moving and stay in one place
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What is the Gulf Coastal Plains?
The region in which Native Texans would use alligator and shark grease to repel mosquitoes
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What is human geography?
How humans interact with their environment
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What is Mexico City?
The city once known as Tenochtitlan
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What is the equator?
An imaginary line that circles the earth, dividing it into northern and southern hemispheres
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What is their environment?
What all Native Texans had to adapt to
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What is a reservation?
The land which Native Texans were forced onto because European settlers were taking their land
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What is a Special Purpose Map?
A map that shows information about a specific topic
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What does prehistoric mean?
Before written history
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What is adobe?
Bricks made of sun-dried clay and straw
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What is the Great Plains?
The region in which Native Texans relied heavily on the buffalo for food, clothing, shelter, weapons, and tools
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What is the Coastal Plains region?
The Texas region which is also part of the U.S. Coastal Plain region
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What is a political map?
A map that shows the natural features of an area
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What is the Late-Prehistoric period?
The period in which people began using bows and arrows
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What is irrigation?
Transporting water to crops because of a lack of precipitation
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What are the Jumanos and Tiguas?
Native Texans who lived in far west Texas
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What is the Mountains and Basis region?
The region of Texas with the highest elevation
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What are the Five Themes of Geography?
Location, Place, Region, Movement, Human-Environment Relationships
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