• E Archaic Period: Natives hunted Buffalo, Antelope, and Deer with an atlatl

4 Cities of the Coastal Plains

• A Dallas
  • ​1 Originally grew as financial and insurance center
    
  • 2 Today home to many technology and telcom companies
    
  • 3 DFW International, one of the busiest airports in the world 
    
  • 4 Trinity River
    
• B Austin
  
  • ​​1 Capital of Texas
    
  • 2  Home to many technology companies
    
  • ​3 Famous for its many live music venues
    
  • ​4 Colorado River
    
• C Houston
  
  • ​​1 Home to many industries including energy, shipping, aeronautics, and oil
    
  • ​2 NASA Johnson Space Center
  • ​3 San Jacnito River
    

9 Native Texans

• A American Indian tribes adapted their way of life to the different regions of Texas
  
• B Nomadic groups lived in the plains regions
  
• C Settled groups lived in East Texas​

3 Coastal Plains Subregions

• Piney Woods, Post Oak Belt, Black Land Prairie, Gulf Coast, South Texas Prairie

What major river runs through Dallas?

5 North Central Plains

• A This region becomes increasingly drier and higher in elevation from east to west
  
• B  Region begins at the Balcones Escarpment and continues west to the Caprock Escarpment
  
• C It is covered by grasses and small trees
  
• D Bordered to the North by the Red River
  

Native Texans

Have you Driven west across Texas from DFW?  Did you notice the road was steadily climbing up hill?

8 Mountains and Basins 

• A Tall Mountains separated by large valleys
  
• ​B This region has the highest elevations and the driest climate
  
• ​C Guadalupe Peak highest point in Texas 8,751 ft
  
• D Includes the city of El Paso
  
• E Rio Grande River is border with Mexico

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• E Includes the Edwards Aquifer
  
  • ​1 Provides drinking water for 2 million people and irrigation for agriculture
    

1 Regions of Texas

• A Coastal Plains​
  
• B Central Plains
  
• C Great Plains
  
• ​D Mountains and Basins
  

• ​D Paleo-Indian Period: Native Texans hunted Mammoths and Mastodons with flint tipped spears​

Have you been to Austin? The Bob Bullock Texas History Musum or the Capitol Building?

2 Coastal Plains

• A Includes most of the largest cities in Texas
  • ​1 Dallas
    
  • 2 Houston
    
  • 3 Austin ​
  • ​4 San Antonio
    
• B Lowest elevation of all four regions
  
• C Cities developed on or near waterways for trade and transportation (Ocean/River)​​
• ​D Most farming and ranching in this region
  
• E Bordered to the North by the Red River
• F Has a lot of rivers that empty in the Gulf of Mexico
  

12 Jumano

• A Live in Mountains and Basins Region
  
• B Permanent Pueblo villages of adobe homes​​

14 Karankawa

• A Lived along the Gulf coast in the Coastal Region
  
• B Nomadic tribe
  
• ​C Not considered cannibals?  Because they "only ate their enemies to absorb their magical powers, not for food" (duh)
• ​D They were tall and fearsome warriors who were skilled with long bows.
  

10 Caddo

• A Lives in East Texas, Coastal plains
  
• ​B Live in tall dome shaped huts framed with wood and covered in grass
  
• ​C Settled in villages
  

7 Great Plains 

• A Southern most end of the U.S. Great Plains
• B Palo Duro Canyon in Pan Handle​
  
• C Some of the best flat lands suitable for farming

Have you traveled North through the Great Plains of the United States?  What do you remember about that landscape?

• F Late Prehistoric: Natives began living in villages, planting crops, taming animals, and hunting with bow and arrow

What do most of these have in common?

Natural Texas and It's People

13 Coahuiltecans

• A Name of a large group of tribes or small bands of Natives in South Texas along the Rio Grande and Gulf Coast
  
• B Coastal Plains region
  
• ​C Originally lived in permanent wickiup huts
  
• D Later they became nomadic and had no shelters
  
• E Wiped out by the Spanish

Have you visited San Antonio?  What was your favorite place there?

11 Comanche

• A Nomadic tribe of the Great Plains
  
• B lived in Tipis
  
• C Followed the Buffalo​

Have you ever visited the Mountains and Basins Region?  How was it different than here?

6 North Central Plains Subregions

• A Grand Prairie, Cross Timbers, and Rolling Plains

• ​D  San Antonio

• ​1 Center of Tourism
  
• 2 Home to many military bases
• ​3 San Antonio River