Which of these landforms might you find in a highlands region?
a) a valley b) a lake c) a hill d) a basin
What is a hill?
100
Which of the follow is a region of California?
a) the Middle West
b) the Central Valley
c) the West
d) the Northeast
What is the Central Valley
100
What affects the length of time plants can grow during a season?
a) climate b) pollution c) plateaus d) canyons
What is climate?
100
Which human-made features would settlers probably build last?
a) barns to house their livestock
b) movie theaters
c) homes for people to live in
d) places for people to work
What are movie theaters?
100
If you walked in the direction opposite northwest, you would be going which way?
What is southeast?
200
This landform has steep sides and a flat top. (Page 17)
What is a plateau?
200
This California Region touches Oregon to the north, Mexico to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. (Page 32)
What is the Coast Region?
200
Which of the following is the most important natural resource?
a) boron
b)silver
c)water
d)tungsten
What is water?
200
Which kind of area has the smallest population?
a) city
b) urban area
c) suburban area
d)rural area
What is a rural area?
200
What kind of map best shows the geography of a place?
a) a grid map b) a resource map c) a street map
d) a landform map
What is a landform map?
300
This physical feature is a large chain of mountains. (Page 17)
What is a mountain range?
300
The driest region of California is its... (Page 33)
What is the Desert Region?
300
What are solar panels used for?
a) they are used as aqueducts
b)they turn wind power into energy
c) They capture the sun's energy
d) They are used to build dams
What is they capture the sun's energy?
300
Which is an example of a natural disaster? (Page 66)
a) trees that can be used for lumber
b) a car accident
c) an earthquake
d) pollution
What is an earthquake?
300
How does a resource map show the ways land in an area is used? (Page 61)
a) Intermediate directions describe land use.
b) A compass rose points out land use
c) Pictures show land use
d) Colors show land use
What is colors show land use?
400
This landform is a wide valley shaped like a bowl. (Page 18)
What is a basin?
400
The Sierra Nevadas are a large part of this region. (Page 33)
What is the Mountain Region?
400
What does conservation do? (page 70)
a) It saves resources
b) It stops earthquakes
c) It creates pollution.
d) It irrigates dry lands
What is it saves resources.
400
What human-made feature makes it possible for people to work in San Francisco but live outside the city? (page 64)
a) the Golden Gate Bridge
b) Lake Oroville Reservoir
c) Yosemite National Park
d) Fairfield Aqueducts
What is the Golden Gate Bridge?
400
What three states border California? (see map)
What Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona?
500
This is Earth's largest body of water. (Page 19)
What is an ocean?
500
This California Region is where most farming and agriculture takes place. (Page 32)
What is the Central Valley?
500
Which natural resource is "farmed" by turbines on Altamont Pass? (Page 58)
What is wind?
500
What man-made feature carries water from high in northern California to farm areas that need it? (page 50)
What are aqueducts?
500
How does a picture graph provide information? (Page 52)