Exam 2

Landmarks are places that are identified where famous events took place or that symbolizes something important?

The four oceans are: Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Artic

Most amazing engineering feat of the 20th century is the human expansion into...

what is st. patricks day?

Who was the dominatnt wildlife artist painting and cataloging the birds of North America?

The four time zones are: Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific

Boundaries between communist- controlled countries and free nations are called Iron Curtain

are Gulfs and Bays also part of the ocean?

Osama Bin Laden was the primary mastermind behind 9/11?

"Lucky Lindy" was the first to to fly non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.

Are Gulfs and Bays surrounded on 3 sides by land?

Chinese, Vietnamese, and Koreans celebrate Lunar New Year?

What was the national flower of the United States in 1986?

Tonkawa ranged across the Edwards Plateau to the Brazos Valley. They lived by hunting, fishing, gathering fruits & nuts

This international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.

high mountain ranges were the result of shelves of rock coming together and being forced upwards

The people of the Achaic Period were called Amerinds

What Month is New Year's Day celebrated?

reference maps show location

Texas Independence Day is when Texas declared its independence from Mexico?

What is Tet?

A 10-day celebration remembering the Jewish New Year as a time to examine the past year & making new resolutions

What two presidents are celebrated on Presidents Day?

what is the significance of Juneteenth?

Cultural Diffusion discusses the exchange of ideas, beliefs, ag and ect spread when people came into contact with others

What month is Memorial Day celebrated?

Anthropologists believe that the first Texans were called what?

The traffic signal, hair straightening product, and the safety hood was invented by?

How was the manufacutirng idustry changed? (2 right answers)

Who was elected as the 44th President of the United States?

Who was the first person to walk on the moon?

thematic maps show: population, vegetation, language and etc

the four vegetation regions are: forests, grasslands, savannahs, deserts

what are absolute locations measured in?

National Symbols are representations of people, values, and goals that unite the people of a nation.

What happened on september 11, 2001?

what are continents?

The word is divided into 4 hemispheres

which month is Halloween celebrated?

What did Cyrus McCormick invent that transformed the farming industry?

How did Joseph Glidden change life in Texas dramatically?

What is the greatest mountain system in the world?

Phillis Wheatly was the first African American to publish a book?

Who is known as the father of the modern dairy industry?

The harnessing of the atom has changed the nature of war forever.

In 1847, what treaty was between Native Americans and private citizens? Also believed to have never been broken.

Who was Quanah Parker?

Who was Sally Ride?

the hawaiian islands are the tips of high ocean volcanoes

What is Containment Doctrine?

Which holiday is set aside on November 11 to honor all the of those who have served the U.S in the armed forces.

Rachel Carson brought awareness to the need of clean air and water. Helped create the Enviornmental Protection Agency.

Bill Clinton became the first Democrat since FDR to be reelected president?

This holiday occurs the week of September 17 to educate students on the sacriffices made by the founders of this country

First women to become a member pf the American Acadmey of Arts and Sciences.

Most important modern medical pioneers is...

Columbus Day falls on the second Monday in October.

What is the greatest river in South America?

Eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in 165 BC.

Electricy became one of the most important invention in history because of Benjamin Franklin

Polio left many Americans and people throughout the world with paralysis

First patented telephone in 1876 was by...

American astronomer, popularized sceince with his book Cosmos.

This group was employed to protect white settlers from hostile tribes. Believed to be the oldest state law enforcement.

The Apaches inhabited the High Palins of Central Texas. They hunted bison, elk, deer, and antelope.

Cultural geography includes what

Topographic maps are flat and show: Elevation, terrian by using contour lines

Passover is a Jewish holiday commemorating the Exodus of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt?

Louis Pasteur aided humans throughout the world with the discovery/inventions of?

What day does Dia de los Muertos fall on.

What holiday celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ?

what is the significance of Thanksgiving?

Relief maps have raised features to show elevation

Mesas are smaller than plateaus

What insudtry experienced significant growth after World War 1?

San Jacinto Day commemorates the final Texas victory over Mexico under Santa Anna in 1836?

Willis Carrier received a patent for his Apparatus for Treating Air, the first successful air conditioner.

Which tribe inhabited an area from Galveston to Corpus Christi in a more nomadic way of life?

What is Martin Luther King Day?

What is an isthmus

Kwanzza celebrates seven basic values of African American culture.

vegetation regions of the us are divided into 4 categories

Who Established the Texas Rangers?

Yom Kippur is the most important of Jewish holidays.

The automobile changed people and socoety, giving people the freedom to move farther from their workplaces.

Small bands of Native Americans who inhabited through San Antonio to Del Rio.

A delta is an area of slit formed where a river meets the sea

Who acted to stop the aggression of Iraq when it invaded Kuwait, sending troops to into the Gulf War or Desert Storm?

When is New Year's Eve?

Which holiday celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ?

Plains Indians centered their lives on the buffalo.

Caddo Nation was once largest and most powerful Indian group in Texas.

Political maps show boundaries of nations and states with their capitals

Who created the vaccine for polio?

Which holiday is celebrated by Muslims throughout the world during the ninth month of the Islamic calendar?

Who is most famous for inventing the photographic process in the mid-1800s

Comanche People became excetional horsemen and they lived in what we called the panhandle of Texas.

George Washington Carver was responsible for reaserching and promoting alternative crops.

Physical Maps are raised

Cynthia Ann Parker was captured as a young child by the Comanches and adopted their culture; mother of Quanah Parker