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WorksheetsUnit 1 Review-Natural Texas
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 31mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What region of Texas receives highest amount of rain each year?
a)
Mountains and Basins
b)
High Plains
c)
Central Plains
d)
Coastal Plains
2.
What region of Texas is between the Rio Grande River and the Pecos River?
a)
Mountains and Basins
b)
Central Plains
c)
High Plains
d)
Coastal Plains
3.
What region is home to the bald eagle, armadillo, horned lizard, and the white-tailed deer?
a)
Mountain and Basins
b)
Central Plains
c)
Coastal Plains
d)
High Plains
4.
What region has the cities of Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Austin, and Corpus Christi?
a)
Mountains and Basins
b)
High Plains
c)
Coastal Plains
d)
Central Plains
5.
What region of Texas has a high risk of hurricanes?
a)
Mountains and Basins
b)
High Plains
c)
Central Plains
d)
Coastal Plains
6.
Located in the Mountains and Basins, what is the highest point in Texas?
a)
Davis Mountains
b)
Chisos Mountians
c)
Guadalupe Peak
d)
Rocky Mountains
7.
The Mountains and Basins of Texas receive as little as 8 inches of rain each year. Which of the following plants are able to survive in these conditions?
a)
Mesquite trees and cactus
b)
Pine trees and sunflowers
c)
Oak trees and roses
d)
Pecan trees and bluebonnets
8.
What is the name of Region A?
a)
The Coastal Plains Region
b)
The Great Plains Region
c)
The Central Plains Region
d)
The Mountains and Basins Region
9.
What is the name of Region B?
a)
The Coastal Plains Region
b)
The Great Plains Region
c)
The Central Plains Region
d)
The Mountains and Basins Region
10.
What is the name of Region C?
a)
The Coastal Plains Region
b)
The Great Plains Region
c)
The Central Plains Region
d)
The Mountains and Basins Region
11.
What is the name of Region D?
a)
The Coastal Plains Region
b)
The Central Plains Region
c)
The Great Plains Region
d)
The Mountains and Basins Region
12.
Where does the word “Texas” come from and what does it mean?
a)
Spanish explorers named the region after a town in Spain.
b)
The state was named after a famous French explorer.
c)
The Caddo tribe named Texas and the word means "friendship"
d)
The Comanche tribe named it and the word means "happy"
13.
What do we mean when we say, “Indians had to adapt to their environment?”
a)
All Indians moved to where the land was easy to farm.
b)
Indians used resources around where they lived in order to survive
c)
Some tribes gave women more rights and privileges
d)
Sedentary Indians did not survive as long as Indians that were nomadic.
14.
The Indians in the Gulf Coast can be described as _________________ and _______________/________________
a)
Sedentary and farmers
b)
Sedentary and hunters/gatherers
c)
Nomadic and farmers
d)
Nomadic and hunters/gatherers
15.
Describe the Indian tribes (Jumanos) that lived in the Mountains and Basins region
a)
Nomadic, farmers, lived in adobe houses
b)
Sedentary, farmers and lived in adobe houses
c)
Nomadic, hunted buffalo, and lived in teepees
d)
Nomadic, fished from ocean, and lived in wigwams
16.
What natural resource is the greatest influence on where people choose to settle?
a)
Trees
b)
Climate
c)
Water
d)
Escarpments
17.
Which colored region represents the Mountains and Basins region?
a)
Pink
b)
Blue
c)
Green
d)
Orange
18.
Which colored region represents the Coastal Plains?
a)
Pink
b)
Blue
c)
Green
d)
Orange
19.
Which colored region represents the Great Plains?
a)
Pink
b)
Orange
c)
Blue
d)
Green
20.
Which colored region represents the North Central Plains?
a)
Blue
b)
Green
c)
Pink
d)
Orange
21.
What river forms the boundary between Texas and Mexico?
a)
Red River
b)
Rio Grande River
c)
Lake Travis
d)
Colorado River
22.
What correctly describes the Mountains and Basins region?
a)
Least amount of rain and least populated
b)
Most amount of rain
c)
More people live here than in any other region
d)
Largest region
23.
Which correctly describes the Coastal region of Texas?
a)
Largest region and most amount of rain
b)
Smallest region and most amount of rain
c)
Least populated
d)
Little/no access to water
24.
The exact spot on earth something can be found
a)
relative location
b)
place
c)
absolute location
d)
where the X is on the map
25.
Where something can be found using another object or place
a)
relative location
b)
absolute location
c)
place
d)
Daylight Doughnuts
26.
An area that contains similar physical and/or human features that separate it from other areas.
a)
Place
b)
Region
c)
Absolute location
d)
human/environment interaction
27.
How people and their surroundings interact
a)
human/environment interaction
b)
Place
c)
Region
d)
Location
28.
a pattern of the combination of precipitation and temperature over time
a)
climate
b)
landmark
c)
elevation
29.
An aquifer is a body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater.
a)
TRUE
b)
False
30.
Which tribe lived in the Coastal Plain Region of Texas?
a)
Caddo
b)
Apache
c)
Comanche
31.
The Great Plains were home to which tribe?
a)
Karankawa
b)
Caddo
c)
Comanche
32.
The Jumano lived in what region?
a)
Great Plains
b)
Mountains and Basins
c)
Central Plains
33.
Most Native tribes lived by waterways.
a)
TRUE
b)
FALSE
34.
The Red River makes the border on the Northern part of Texas.
a)
TRUE
b)
FALSE
35.
The Palo Duro Canyon is in which region?
a)
Mountains and Basins
b)
Great Plains
c)
Coastal Plains
36.
Which region has more rivers? Mountains and Basins or Coastal Plains?
a)
Coastal Plains
b)
Mountains and Basins
37.
of or about the city
a)
landform
b)
climate
c)
urban
d)
rural
38.
of or about the countryside
a)
landform
b)
climate
c)
urban
d)
rural
39.
location of a place in relationship to other places or features
a)
absolute location
b)
relative location
c)
age distribution
d)
growth rate
40.
physical location of a place
a)
absolute location
b)
relative location
c)
age distribution
d)
growth rate
41.
Which of the four natural regions has the highest population?
a)
Gulf Coastal Plains
b)
North Central Plains
c)
Great Plains
d)
Mountains & Basins
42.
What effect did the environment have on Native American housing?
a)
They built houses depending on the weather
b)
They built houses with materials found nearby
c)
They built houses under trees to protect them from the weather
d)
They built houses on hills to protest them from wild animals
43.
Some tribes were forced to become nomadic because...
a)
It was the most popular religion at the time.
b)
warrior tribes chased them off their land.
c)
their land was unstable for farming.
d)
their homes were poorly built and did not last long.
44.
Native American diets consisted of...
a)
foods that were considered mostly healthy.
b)
foods that could be found in the immediate area.
c)
anything that was left over from wild animals.
d)
low calorie/high fiber foods
45.
Why were the homes of the Caddo more elaborate and better built than the homes of the Comanche?
a)
The Caddo were farmers and stayed in one place.
b)
The Caddo were a wealthy tribe and could afford better homes.
c)
They were forced to build better homes because of storms that frequented the area.
d)
The Comanche tended to have smaller families and didn't need bigger homes.
46.
Many of the early Native Texans were killed off by?
a)
starvation
b)
disease
c)
war
d)
raids
47.
Which of the following is a physical characteristic of Texas?
a)
Roads
b)
Buildings
c)
Caprock Escarpment
d)
Lake Lewisville
48.
What Texas city was destroyed in 1900 by a massive hurricane?
a)
Houston
b)
Austin
c)
Corpus Christi
d)
Galveston
49.
Which of the following is an example of a human characteristic in Texas?
a)
Landforms
b)
Caprock Escarpment
c)
Rio Grande River
d)
Interstates/Highways
50.
Which of the following are major natural resources located in Texas?
a)
Cattle
b)
Cotton
c)
Oil/Petroleum
d)
All the above
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