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Unit 1 vocabulary

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Definition
show the sire or position of a place or a thing  
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show the surroundings in which people,plants,or animals live.  
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show a large area of flat, or nearly flat land  
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show a narrow island between the mainland and the ocean  
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show a steep slope or cliff  
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show a crack in the earths surface caused by moving plates  
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plateau   show
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show a layer of rock or gravel that that absorbs rainfall and keeps it flowing underground  
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basin   show
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elevation   show
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maquiladora   show
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show lacking enough water for things to grow.  
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petroleum   show
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drought   show
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erosion   show
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show a small,high plateae  
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butte   show
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show large scale farming including production,proccesing,and disrubtion  
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show person who moves from place to place  
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show scientist who studies the physical remains of the past  
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artifact   show
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show person who lives by hunting and gathering food,rather than growing it  
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show person believed to have the power to summon spirits and heal the sick  
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confederacy   show
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matrinnel   show
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adobe   show
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patrilineal   show
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tepee   show
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show a dealer or agent acting as a go between for the producers of goods and retailers or consumers  
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tribe   show
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gulf indians   show
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show Kiowas, Apache, Comanche, Tonkawas (Nomadic, followed the buffalo, wore buffalo skin clothing and lived in tepees)  
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show 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)  
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show Wichita, Atakapans, Caddo ( Lived in the piney woods area of Texas, had face & body tattoos, were hunter-gatherers)  
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era   show
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pre history era   show
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show 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.  
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spanish colonial era   show
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show a large aquifer, or an underground layer of porous rock that contains water, that stretches from South Dakota to Central Texa  
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Austin   show
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show an area at the southern tip of Texas along the northern bank of the Rio Grande River as it nears the Gulf of Mexico  
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Beringia   show
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migrate   show
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