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unit 1 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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location | the site or position of a place or thing |
enviorment | the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates. |
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. |
Ogallala Aquifer | a large aquifer, 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 Coastal 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 last ice age, it included the Bering Strait that connects Alaska and Asia |
Migrate | To move from one place to another for social, economical, or religious reasons |
Mesa | a naturally flat topped hill |
Basin | a sunken area in a found between moutian ranges |
elevation | height above sea level |
Mesa | a small high plateau |
Butte | a flat topped hill |
agribusiness | large - scale farming including prodution,procesing and distrbistion |
shaman | a person who and the powers to heal the sick |
Plain | a large area of flat land |
Barrier island | a narrow island between the midland and the ocean |
Arid | lacking enough water for things to grow |
petroleum | a type of oil that is source for gasilane |
Nomad | person who 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 |
Confederacy | a union of different groups |
matrilineal | refering to a group that traces kinship through the mothers line |
Escarpment | a steep slope or cliff |
Plateau | an area of high , flat land |
Fault line | a crack in the earths surface |
drought | a period of lower than normal precipition |
hunter-gatherer | a person who lives by hunting rather than growing food |
adobe | a mix of sun dried earth and straw used to build houses |
aquifers | a layer of rock or gravel that absorbs rainfall and keeps it flowing underground |
erosion | the wearing away of Earth's surface by the movement of water,wind,ice, and gravity |
patrilineal | referring to a group that traces kinship through the fathers line |
Teepee | a portable home made of tanned bison hides fastend to a framework of poles |
middleman | a dealer or agent acting as a go between |