Missions Geography Government Texas Natives Spanish Explorers

QUESTION: How is the amount of precipitation in East Different from that in West Texas ANSWER: There is more precipitation in East Texas

QUESTION: Traveling from East to West Texas you will ANSWER: Begin at a low elevation and Gradually move in High Elevation

QUESTION: What Theme of Geography contains transportation and communication ANSWER: Movement

QUESTION: How does the physical environment of Coastal Texas compare with the Mountain and Basin Region? ANSWER: Coastal Texas has a lower elevation

QUESTION: A line of Latitude measures distances ___________ and __________ of the Equator? ANSWER: North and South

QUESTION: This Principle of Government Makes sure everybody has to follow the same rules including Government officials ANSWER: Limited Government

QUESTION: This Principle ensures certain liberties that can not be taken away ANSWER: Individual rights

QUESTION: The President is the leader of this Branch of Government ANSWER: Executive Branch

QUESTION: This Principle creates the division of government roles into 3 branches ANSWER: Separation of Powers

QUESTION: This Branch can approve a law as well as veto a law ANSWER: Executive Branch

QUESTION: What similarities do the Apache and Comanche share ANSWER: They are nomads that depended on the buffalo for survival

QUESTION: Respecting their environment and protecting the natural resources is a quality of what people ANSWER: Texas Natives

QUESTION: The _______________ were known as the best of all horseman ANSWER: Comanche

QUESTION: What Native tribe Believed that eating their enemies would ensure they would not rejoin them in the afterlife? ANSWER: Atakapan

QUESTION What similarities do the Caddo and Wichita Indians have in common ANSWER: Both had Women Leaders

QUESTION: Who Shipwrecked in the mouth of the Matagorda Bay ANSWER: LaSalle

QUESTION: When did Pineda map the coastline of Texas ANSWER: 1519

QUESTION: What Motivation led European explorers to Explore the Americas ANSWER: Gold

QUESTION: What main industry did the Spanish introduce to Texas ANSWER: Ranching

QUESTION: When did most Europeans come to explore Texas ANSWER:

QUESTION: What is a Mission ANSWER: Settlement in Indian Territory

QUESTION: What was an unintended consequence of Spanish Settlement ANSWER: Several Natives died as a result of disease

QUESTION: Settlements were used as a way to claim land is a characteristic of what Era ANSWER: Mission Era

QUESTION: The most Succesful Mission of Texas was the ANSWER: San Antonio de Valero

QUESTION: What mission involved the Tigua Indians ANSWER: Corpus Christi De La Ysleta