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TermDefinition
Location The site or position of a place or thing.
Environment The surrounding in which people plants or animals live.
Plain A large area of flat, or nearly flat, land.
Barrier Island A narrow island between the mainland and the ocean.
Escarpment A steep slope or cliff.
fault Line A crack in Earths surface caused by moving plates.
Plateau An area of high flat land.
Aquifers A layer of rock or gravel that obsorbs rainfall and keeps it underground.
Basin A sunken in a plateau found between mountain ranges.
Elevation High above sea level.
Arid Lacking enough water for things to grow.
Petroleum A type of oil that is the source for gasoline.
Drought A period of lower than normal precipitation.
Erosion The wearing away of Earths surface by the movement of water, wind, ice, and gravity.
Messa A small, high plateau.
Butte A flat topped hill, smaller than a mesa.
Agribusiness Large scale farming including including production, processing, and distribution.
Nomad A person who moves from place to place.
Archaeologist Scientist who studies the physical remains of the past.
Artifact Any object made or used by humans such as tools, pottery, bones, and shells.
Hunter-Gatherer A person who lives by hunting and gathering food rather than growing it.
Shaman Person who is believed to have the power to heal the sick and summon spirits.
Confederacies A union of different groups.
Matrilineal Referring to a group that traces kinship through the mothers line.
adobe a mix of sun dried earth and straw used to build houses
patrillineal referring to a group that traces kinship through the father.
teepee a portable home made from tanned bison hide fastened to a framework of poles.
middle man a dealer or agent acting as a go between for the producers of goods or retailers or consumers.
tribe a tribe is a number of bands that follow the same leader and share the same territory.
gulf Indians coahuiltecans Karankawas (harshest environment hunter gather, ate snakes lizards, snails, armadillos, ect
plain Indians Kiowas, apachie, comanchie, tonkawas (nomadic, followed the buffalo, wore buffalo skinclothing and lived in teepees.
Puebloan Indians chochos, tiguas, adobe, (lived in the mountain and basin region of texas where there was very little plant life. They ate seeds, cactus, and small animals. Lived in pueblos built adobe style with clay.
southeastern Indians Witchita, Atakapans, caddo (lived in the piney woods area of Texas, had face and body tatoos, were hunter gatherers.
pre history era This era is the prehistory of Texas up to the point of contact with Europeans in 1528. This era includes natural geologic history as well as native American history.
age of contact 1528 to 1690 This era includes the encounters of Cabeza de Vaca and the numerous expeditions over the next 150 years that defines what the Europeans and Indians understood about each other and Texas
Spanish colonial era 1690 to 1821 This era deals with the efforts of Spain to bring Texas under Spanish control. The Spanish established
Ogallala Aquifer A large aquafer, or an underground layer of porous rock that contains water, that stretches from south Dakota to central Texas.
Austin The capital of Texas located in central Texas in the costal plains region
Rio Grande Valley An area at the southern tip of Texas along the northern bank of the Rio Grande river as it nears the Gulf of Mexico.
Beringia A region now covered in water that was exposed during the ice age, it included the Bering strait that connects Alaska and Asia.
Migrate To move from one place to another for social, economic, or religious purposes.
era A period of time
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