Texas history Flashcards
The study of how people interact with the land.
Human geography
What are the lines of the grid system that measure distance east and west of the prime Meridian?
Longitude
The exact place where something is, found by using a grid system.
Absolute location
The study of the land and the features on its surface.
Physical geography
Lines in the grid system that measure distance north and south of the equator.
Latitude
Where a place is compared to where other places are
Relative location
What is the imaginary line that divides the earth into northern and southern halves.
Equator
What is culture?
Culture means the customs, ideas, beliefs, and skills of people.
Which theme of geography considers the physical and human characteristics of a spot?
Place
Which theme of geography groups places together because they share similarities.
Region
Which type of map might show the roads or resources.
Special purpose map
What are the images created by carving on rock?
Petroglyph
What are images created by drawing or painting on a rock?
Pictograph
What word is used to describe something that a parent passes to a child?
Hereditary
archaeologists study these objects to learn about how people lived in the past.
Artifacts
What do we call people who move around in search for food
Nomads
A kind of organization larger than a tribe
Confederacy
A group that includes grandparents as well as parents and children
Extended family
The Tigua used this room for meetings and religious ceremonies
Kiva
How did the early native Americans use the atlatl
To throw spears with more force
Which of the following formed part of a diet of hunter -gartherers in early texas
Small game animals nuts and berries
Which people traded well made bows and pottery
Caddo
What did the tonkawas do after the apaches and Comanches Pushed them off the plains
Became hunters and gatheres
Which groups were part of the plains culture
Comanche and tonkawa
