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The imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the equator.
This region is known for its beaches and ocean ports
What is Costal Regions
This is the capital city of California.
What is Sacramento?
People during the Gold Rush migrated to California in search of this.
What is gold?
Oakland is part of this U.S. state.
What is California?
The two locations on the surface of the earth of which are the northern and southern ends of the axis of rotation.
What are the north and south poles.
Death Valley, the hottest place in North America, is in this region.
What is the Desert region?
California shares a border with this country.
What is Mexico?
Monarch butterflies travel thousands of miles to spend winter in this country.
What is Mexico?
Oakland is in this part of California — north, south, east, or west?
What is northern California?
List the 7 continents
North America, South America, Antartica, Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia
This region has rich soil and is flat, great for farming.
What is the Central Valley?
This is the highest mountain in the continental U.S., and it's in California.
What is Mount Whitney?
This animal species migrates along California’s coast every year to breed in warmer waters.
What is a Gray Whale?
Oakland is in this county.
What is Alameda country?
Imaginary lines that start at the equator and run east and west, parallel to the equator.
What are latitude lines
This mountain range includes Lake Tahoe and Yosemite.
What is the Sierra Nevada?
This large freshwater lake is located in the Sierra Nevada and borders Nevada.
What is Lake Tahoe?
Which of these is NOT a reason people move to California today?
A. To work in technology or film
B. To hike and enjoy nature
C. To find snowstorms all year long
C
This popular type of tree is in Oakland’s name.
What is an Oak Tree?
the imaginary line of longitude at 0 degrees, serving as the reference point for measuring distances east and west around the Earth
What is the Prime Meridian
This rare type of desert in California is called a “rain shadow” desert because it lies on the dry side of a mountain range.
What is the Mojave Desert?
The goddess on the California seal
Who is Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom
What event in the 1930s forced many families to migrate to this U.S. state?
What is the dust bowl?
About how many people live in Oakland
What is 400,000?