Texas Regions and Natives Study Guide

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Mountain & Basins Region

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(b) Great Plains Region

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(c) Central Plains Region

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(d) (Gulf) Coastal Plains Region

• Makes up a 3rd of the state

• Least populated region in Texas

• Gulf Coast Plain

• Blackland Prairie

• High Plans, the Edwards Plateau, the Llano Basin

• Lipan Apache live here

• The Piney Woods

• Rolling plains and Grand Prairie are apart of this region

• The South Texas Plain

• The Tonkawa made their home in this area

• Post Oak Belt

• Cross Timbers is apart of this region

• Comanche Live here

• Home to the Tigua Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo

Who is best known for their striped face paintings and for facilitating trade between Native American groups and Spanish Groups

• The Jumano

• The Lipan Apache

• Comanche

• Tonkawa

Who is best known for being skilled horsemen and fierce warriors?

• The Jumano

• The Comanche

• The Karankawa

• The Caddo

Match the following

• The Lipan Apache & Comanche

• Known for its oil production and for producing more than half of the worlds mohair

• The Tonkawa

• Believed they were descended from mythical wolf-like creature

• The Caddo

• Most well known for their fine pottery, elaborate ceremonies and enormous burial mounds

• The Karankawa

• No longer exist in Texas

• The Edwards Plateau

• Made their home in the Great Plains

Match the following

• equestrian

• wild animals hunted for food

• condederacy

• a group that joins together for a common purpose

• fertile

• weather patterns

• climate

• being able to produce crops

• game

• having to do with horses

.........adding water to land to help groups grow

Match the following

• limestones

• a soft coal that is a natural resource of the Post Oak Belt

• lignite

• animals raised on a farm or ranch

• landmarks

• places of interest

• livestock

• places of interest

• landmarks

• white stone found in the Grand Prairie region of the Central Plains

Match the following

• marshes

• wood used for contstruction

• llanite

• to move from one area of the country

• lumber

• wet area of land where a variety of grasses grow

• mohair

• rare pink granite only found in the Llano Basin

• migrate

• shiny yarn made from the hair of angora goats

a meeting of Native Americans to celebrate traditions and culture

Match the following

• sprawling

• covering a large, expansive

• "Tejas"

• caddo word meaning friend

• resilient

• the ability to recover from a difficult situation

• tepee

• tents made of poles covered with buffalo hides

• sub-region

• a smaller region that is a part of a larger region