Natural Texas and It's People Review (Thornton)

Question 1

How do natural disaster affect the economy of an area?

Accepted Answer

The price of goods will go up.

Question 2

(26.) What does human environment interaction mean?

Accepted Answer

How people change their environment to meet their needs.

Question 3

What were the different types of American Indian tribes?

Accepted Answer

The Puebloan, the Southeastern&Coast, and the Plains Tribes

Question 4

What is an aquifer?

Accepted Answer

An underground water source.

Question 5

(5.) Name the three border rivers of Texas?

Accepted Answer

The Rio Grande, Red River, and the Sabine River.

Question 6

What is the major contributing factor to the Coastal Plains climate?

Accepted Answer

Gulf of Mexico

Question 7

(25.) What does the word nomadic mean?

Accepted Answer

Move from place to place.

Question 8

What is the definition of absolute location?

Accepted Answer

The exact location of a place using coordinates or an adress

Question 9

What are the three different types of population pyramids?

Accepted Answer

Expansive, stationary, and constrictive.

Question 10

(22.) What negative affects do humans have on their environment?

Accepted Answer

Pollution and depletion of resources.

Question 11

(7.) Which region of Texas has the harshest climate making it the most difficult to live in?

Accepted Answer

The Mountains and Basins region.

Question 12

(24.) What was the most important food source for the plains American Indian tribes?

Accepted Answer

Buffalo

Question 13

How did the Gulf Coastal American Indian tribes adapt to their environment?

Accepted Answer

They use dugout canoes to fish for their food.

Question 14

What did the Puebloan tribes build their homes out of?

Accepted Answer

Adobe, or sun dried earth.

Question 15

(6.) How did the Anglo’s (White Man) affect the Native Americans?

Accepted Answer

Forced from their homelands, and many died from disease.

Question 16

(23.) What kind of houses did the nomadic American Indians have?

Accepted Answer

They used houses called tepees.

Question 17

(20.) How are demographics represented on population pyramids?

Accepted Answer

They are represented by age and gender.

Question 18

Where were the American Indian tribes located?

Accepted Answer

Each Region of Texas had their own tribes.

Question 19

(4.) Why are population pyramids useful?

Accepted Answer

What type of people live there, population growth, forecast.

Question 20

(27.) What does irrigation mean?

Accepted Answer

The method in which water is supplied to crops.

Question 21

Why did some Native Americans depend on different sources of food?

Accepted Answer

The ate what food sources were available to them.

Question 22

(28.) What does the word sedentary mean?

Accepted Answer

Living in one place for an extended period of time.

Question 23

How are the regions different?

Accepted Answer

Each region has its own unique geography.

Question 24

(8.) What are the four regions of Texas and where are they located on a map?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 25

Which Native American tribes had the most developed forms of society and why?

Accepted Answer

The Caddo and other east Texas tribes that were sedentary.

Question 26

What does demographic mean?

Accepted Answer

A specific group of people in a population.

Question 27

How did the American Indians adapt to their environment?

Accepted Answer

They used the resources that were available in their area.

Question 28

(21.) In what Texas region do hurricanes most often occur in and why?

Accepted Answer

The coastal Plains and the Gulf of Mexico.

Question 29

What does the precipitation pattern of Texas look like on a map?

Accepted Answer

It increases as you move from west to east.

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