Where is California?
This is the study of people, places, and environments on Earth.
What is geography?
This is a shape or feature on Earth's surface, such as a mountain or valley.
What is a landform?
This is the usual weather of a place over time.
What is climate?
This is something found in nature that people use to make food, shelter, or other goods.
What is a natural resource?
California is rich in ___________ ___________.
What are natural resources?
This is a large mass of land on Earth's surface.
What is a continent?
This is a flat, triangle-shaped area of land at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
This is an area that has one or more features in common.
What is a region?
This is something in nature that can be replaced after people use it.
What is a renewable resource?
This is the wearing away of Earth's surface by wind or water.
What is erosion?
This is an imaginary line around the middle of Earth.
What is the equator?
the surroundings in which people, plants, and animals live
What is the environment?
This is a region that gets little rain.
What is the desert?
These is something that cannot be replaced once it is used.
What is nonrenewable resource?
These three things affect climate.
What is distance from the equator, distance from the ocean, and elevation?
This is a half sphere, or globe.
What is a hemisphere?
California's ____________ and water affect where people live and what they do.
What is land?
This is a low area of land that has water on or near the surface.
What is a wetland?
This is something such as wind or sunshine that must be used when and where it is available.
What is a flow resource?
___________ ___________ is the lowest, hottest, and driest place in North America.
What is Death Valley?
Describe California's location in one way.
on the Pacific Ocean, west of Nevada and Arizona, north of Mexico, south of Oregon
Natural forces such as ___________, earthquakes, and erosion create and reshape California's landforms.
What are volcanoes?
California's _____________, regions, and climates have attracted many people to live and work in the state.
What are resources?
Name a natural resource and how it is used.
Answers may vary.
Geographers ask these four questions about places.
Where is it? What is it like? Why is it there? How has it changed?