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Barowsky - Native Texas and Its People

Total questions: 32

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How does the Mountains & Basins region differ from the North Central Plains region?

a)

Mountains & Basins has more farmland

b)

Mountains & Basins has more coastline

c)

Mountains & Basins has more desert

d)

Mountains & Basins produces more crops

2.

What is the term for a long, steep cliff?

a)

plain

b)

aquifer

c)

escarpment

d)

range

3.

Which region has thick forests and a timber industry?

a)

Gulf Coastal Plains

b)

North Central Plains

c)

Great Plains

d)

Mountains & Basins

4.

What did the Comanches' diet and housing depend on?

a)

Cannibalism

b)

Buffalo

c)

Europeans

d)

Tonkawas

5.

Native Americans had a use for every part of the buffalo.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

The Jumanos had to adapt to life with very little water.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

The Comanches made beautiful pottery.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

Which number is the Great Plains region?

(a)  

9.

Which number is the North Central Plains region?

(a)  

10.

Which number is the Gulf Coastal Plains region?

(a)  

11.

Which number is the Mountains & Basins region?

(a)  

12.

Which location did the Comanches inhabit?

(a)  

13.

Which location did the Jumanos inhabit?

(a)  

14.

Which location did the Caddos inhabit?

(a)  

15.

Which location did the Wichitas inhabit?

(a)  

16.

Which region did the Tonkawas inhabit?

(a)  

17.

Which tribe was pushed eastward by the Apaches and Comanches?

a)

Caddos

b)

Tonkawas

c)

Wichitas

d)

Karankawas

18.

Which tribe had the most advanced culture of all the tribes, made and traded clay pottery, and lived in cone-shaped houses decorated with colorful rugs and baskets?

a)

Caddo

b)

Wichita

c)

Jumano

d)

Comanche

e)

Karankawa

19.

Which tribe lived mainly in the Mountains & Basins, were called the "Striped People", required men to farm, and were skilled traders who lived in pueblos?

a)

Caddo

b)

Wichita

c)

Jumano

d)

Comanche

e)

Karankawa

20.

Which tribe depended on the buffalo for their entire way of life, made pemmican, and were known as the "warriors of the plains" who lived in teepees?

a)

Caddo

b)

Wichita

c)

Jumano

d)

Comanche

e)

Karankawa

21.

Which tribe used the phrase "Tay-yas" meaning friends while meeting Spanish explorers, organized confederacies, and inhabited the Gulf Coastal Plains?

a)

Caddo

b)

Wichita

c)

Jumano

d)

Comanche

e)

Karankawa

22.

Which tribe were the most feared in battle, were expert horsemen, and lived as nomads in the Great Plains?

a)

Caddo

b)

Wichita

c)

Jumano

d)

Comanche

e)

Karankawa

23.

Which tribe were the tallest people of all the tribes, practiced ceremonial cannibalism, and wore deerskin and Spanish moss?

a)

Caddo

b)

Wichita

c)

Jumano

d)

Comanche

e)

Karankawa

24.

Which tribe lived in teepees and grass huts, were shorter and darker than other tribes, tattooed "raccoon eyes", and farmed the North Central Plains region?

a)

Caddo

b)

Wichita

c)

Jumano

d)

Comanche

e)

Karankawa

25.

Which tribe fished the Gulf of Mexico, used dugout canoes form tree trunks, hunted deer, and gathered wild plants?

a)

Caddo

b)

Wichita

c)

Jumano

d)

Comanche

e)

Karankawa

26.

(a)   - n. The movement of people to a new area or country in order to find work or better living conditions.

27.

(a)   - adj. Describes people who wander from place to place in search of food.

28.

(a)   - n. Customs, ideas, beliefs, and skills of a people.

29.

(a)   - adj. Describes a way of life where people are permanently settled in one place.

30.

(a)   - n. An area of land divided by natural borders.

31.

(a)   - n. The work of preparing soil, producing crops, and raising livestock.

32.

(a)   - adj. People who are native to a particular place.