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Central Valley Shines!
100
This covers parts of the Mojave and Colorado deserts.
What is Death Valley National Park?
100
This desert covers 25,000 square miles.
What is the Mojave Desert?
100
This explorer entered the San Diego Bay and claimed it for Spain in 1542.
Who is Juan Rodriguez?
100
The average American eats this much lettuce every year.
What is 30 pounds?
100
This is how many farms and ranches there are in the Central Valley.
What is 76,400?
200
This is the lowest point in the United States with an elevation of 282 feet below sea level.
What is the Badwater Basin?
200
This desert includes Joshua Tree National Park.
What is the Colorado Desert?
200
In 1769, Father Junipero Serra built this in California.
What is the San Diego de Alcala Mission?
200
This is often called the "Salad Bowl of the World".
What is Monterey County?
200
These ten California farm products have been produced in large quantities over the last several years.
What are tomatoes, milk & cream, grapes, pistachios & almonds, carrots, broccoli, hay, peppers, flowers and strawberries?
300
During the summer, temperatures can soar to this number in the shade.
What is 120 degrees?
300
These are the three main deserts in California.
What is the Mojave Desert, the Colorado Desert, and the Great Basin Desert?
300
This serves as homeport for the 11th U.S. Naval District and base operations for the Marines, Army, and Coast Guard.
What is San Diego Harbor?
300
This shrub has small yellow flowers and a very strong smell when it rains.
What is the creosote bush?
300
We grow 99% of these in California.
What are almonds, kiwis, olives, artichokes, pomegranates, pistachios, dates, persimmons, prunes and figs?
400
This is the best time to visit Death Valley.
What is winter?
400
This desert covers parts of California, Oregon, Nevada, and Utah.
What is the Great Basin Desert?
400
This is known to be one of the largest in the world.
What is the San Diego Zoo?
400
These animals use the creosote bush for shelter.
What is the desert tortoise and the kangaroo rat?
400
We raise 86% of all of these used in America.
What are lemons?
500
This group of people gave Death Valley its name.
What is pioneers?
500
This covers 20,000 square miles and is surrounded by the Cascade, Tehachapi, Sierra Nevada and Coastal Mountain ranges.
What is the Central Valley?
500
More than 1.3 million people live here.
What is San Diego?
500
Jackrabbits, desert rats and insects use the creosote bush for this.
What is food?
500
These bring in around $54 billion to our state each year.
What are farms?
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