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Unit 1 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Location | The site or position of a place |
Environment | The surroundings in which people, plants, or animals live |
Plain | A large area or flat, or nearly flat, land |
Barrier island | A narrow island between the main land and the ocean |
Escarpment | A steep slop or cliff |
Plateau | An area of high, flat land |
Fault line | A crack in the Earth's surface caused by moving plates |
Aquifers | A layer of rocks or gravel that absorbs rainfall and keeps it flowing underground |
Basins | A sunken area in a plateau found between mountain ranges |
Elevation | Height 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 Earth's surface by the movement of water, wind, ice, and gravity |
Mesa | A small, high plateau |
Butte | A flat-topped, hill, smaller than a mesa |
Agribusiness | Large-scale farming including production, processing, and distribution |
Nomad---- | A member of a people who have no fixed residence but move from place to place usually seasonally and within a well-defined territory |
archeologist | The study of the ancient and recent human past through material remains |
Artifact | An object made by a human being |
Hunter-gatherer | A type of subsistence lifestyle that relies on hunting and fishing animals and foraging for wild vegetation and other nutrients like honey, for food |
Shaman | |
Confederacy | |
Matrillineal | |
Adobe | |
Patrillineal | |
Tepee | |
Middleman | |
Tribe---- | A tribe is a number of bands that follow the same leader and share the same territory and culture. |
Gulf Indians | Coahuiltecans, Karankawas (harshest environment, hunter-gatherers, ate snakes, lizards, snails, armadillos, etc., greatly affected by European diseases) |
Plains Indians | Kiowas, Apache, Comanche, Tonkawas (Nomadic, followed the buffalo, wore buffalo skin clothing and lived in tepees) |
Puebloan Indians | Chochos, Tiguas, Adobe (Lived in the Mountain & basin region of Texas where there was very little plant life. They ate seeds, cactus, small animals, lived in pueblos built adobe style with clay) |
Southeastern indians | Wichita, Atakapans, Caddo ( Lived in the piney woods area of Texas, had face & body tattoos, were hunter-gatherers) |
Era | A period of time |
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 | 1528-1690 -This era Includes the encounters of Cabeza de Vaca and the numerous expeditions over the next 150 years that define what the Europeans and American Indians understood about each other and Texas. |
Spanish Colonial Era | 1690-1821- This era deals with the efforts of Spain to bring Texas under Spanish control. The Spanish established missions, town, ranches, and military posts in South Central and East Texas. |