Geography
State Symbols
California Regions
California Indians
Miscellaneous
100

What does Geo in Geography mean

What does graphy in Geography mean

What is "writing the earth" or maps?

100

These are the state bird and state flower

What is the Quail and what is the Golden Poppy?

100

This is the area where Sequoia / Redwood trees grow

What is the Pacific Northwest?

100

Name the 5 tribes we studied

Who were the Achimawi, Chumash, Hopi, Nissenan, and Ohlone tribes?

100

This is how many missions there were

What is 21?

200
Name Californias borders

What is Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, Mexico and the Pacific Ocean?

200

This is the number of stars on the state seal and why

What is 31 and what is California became the 31st state to join the Union?

200

This region is dry and hot and located in this area of California. There is a state park there called ______Valley.

What is the desert located in the southeast. What is Death Valley?

200

This is why Indians did sand art

What is a medicine man using sand art for healing?

200

California is the _______largest state. These two are larger

What is the 3rd largest state? What are Alaska and Texas?

300

Name 4 of the regions in California

What are:

Shasta Cascade, Sierra Nevada, Gold Country, North Coast, Desert, Central Valley, North and South Coast

300

These are our state insect and state reptile

What is the dogface butterfly and what is the desert tortoise?

300

This area of California has 2 rivers that run through it. Name the region, name the rivers

What is the Central Valley? What is the Sacramento River? What is the San Joaquin River?

300
This word means to moving from place to place and this is why Indians did this

What is Nomadic? What is moving in order to follow the food?

300

This is the legend of how California was named. These women rode on this mythical animal

Who was Queen Califia? What is a griffin?

400

This is the main mountain range that runs through California. These are the Indian tribes that lived in the foothills of those mountains. This is a large lake near those mountains.

What are the Sierra Nevada Mountains? Who were the Nissenan and Miwok Indians? What is Lake Tahoe?

400

This is the name of the "warrior" on the state seal. This is her name and who she represents

Who is Minerva Greek goddess of wisdom?

400

This area on the central coast is called the _______gate and this is why. This is the name of the bridge that spans the area. This is actually the color of the bridge.

What is the Gold Gate where ships entered during the Gold Rush. What is the Golden Gate Bridge. What is red or orange?

400

These are ways the geographical location where Indians lived impacted how they lived. 

What are the types of homes Indians built? What are trade goods? What are making weapons using resources? What are the types of foods eaten?

400

This is how we think the Indians came into California and North America

What is a land bridge between Russia and Alaska made of ice?

500

These are some of the many features California has and why people like to live here.

What are mountains for skiing? The ocean for fishing, surfing, and boating? What is good weather? What is Disneyland? What is the Central Valley for growing food?

500

This is California's motto. This is what it means. This is California's nickname

What is Eureka? What is "I found it" which means I found gold! What is "The Golden State"?

500

These are the items we used on our California Cake and what they stood for:

Green coconut / Central Valley?

What is blue sugar / ocean. Brown sugar / desert

Chocolate chips /. mountains

Marshmallows / missions

Gummy bears, swedish fish, licorice trees

500

This is the main food for many Indians and this is how they processed it. This is what they used to cook their mush and how they did it.

What are acorns that have to be crushed and strained over and over to leach the bitter tannin out? What are baskets? What is boiling water with a hot rock?

500

This is the capital of California. These are the large cities in California

What is Sacramento? What are San Francisco, San Diego, and Los Angeles?

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