What are the three types of areas where people are located called?
What is Urban, Suburban, and Rural.
100
What is a compass rose?
What is a symbol on a map that tells the directions of North, South, East, and West.
100
What is a capital?
What is a city where a country's or state's cental government is located.
200
What is the main line of longitude?
What is the Prime Meridian.
200
What is the capital of California?
What is Sacramento.
200
Describe each area where people are located.
What is an Urban area is a big city like Los Angeles. A Suburban area is the area outside a city where people like to live. An example would be Santa Clarita. A Rural area has wide open space where people like to farm. An example would be around Filmore.
200
What is architecture?
What is the style and design of a building.
200
What is a region?
What is a large area in which places share similar features.
300
What is the difference between lines of latitude and longitude?
What is the lines of latitude run east and west. The lines of longitude run north and south.
300
What are the four regions of California?
What is the Mountain, Desert, Valley, and Coastal Regions.
300
What natural resources does the California Coast have?
What is fish and water for travel and trading. The weather and resources are why it is so heavily populated.
300
What is climate?
What is the weather patterns in one place over a long period of time.
300
What is a mountain pass?
What is a narrow gap in a mountain range.
400
What are the four hemispheres? In which hemispheres would you find California?
What are the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Hemispheres. California is located in the Northern and Western hemispheres.
400
Is an ocean an example of a landform? What is a landform?
What is no. A landform is a natural feature of earth's surface. Think land + form.
400
Which types of transportation would you find in San Francisco?
What are cable cars, cars, buses, trains (above ground and below), ferries, and bridges.
400
What is a border?
What is an official line that separate one place from the other.
400
What is a natural resource?
What is a useful material that comes from the Earth.
500
What are the two Tropics? Describe them.
What is the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. The Tropic of Cancer is the northern most point of the equator that receives direct sunlight. It is located at 23 degrees North. The Tropic of Capricorn is the southern most point of the equator that receives direct sunlight. It is located at 23 degrees South.
500
What are four examples of landforms?
What is a hill, mountain, dunes, and valley.
500
What natural resources do the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys have?
What is good soil for agriculture/farming and water from the American, Sacramento, and San Joaquin Rivers.
500
What is absolute location?
What is the exact or nearly exact location of a place on a map using degrees north or south and east or west.
500
What is population density?
What is the average number of people living in a specific unit of area.