Where is California?
Land and Water
Climate and Regions
California's Resources
Were You Really Paying Attention in Class When We Were Reading?
100
This is the study of people and places on Earth.
What is geography?
100
This is a shape or feature on Earth's surface, such as a mountain or valley.
What is a landform?
100
This is the usual weather of a place over time.
What is climate?
100
This is anything from nature that people use.
What is a natural resource?
100
California is rich in ___________ ___________.
What are natural resources.
200
This is a large mass of land on Earth's surface.
What is a continent?
200
This is a wide, flat area of land near the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
200
This is made up of places that have certain features that are alike.
What is a region?
200
This can be replaced after people use them.
What is a renewable resource?
200
This is the wearing away of Earth's surface by wind or water.
What is erosion?
300
This is an imaginary line around the middle of Earth.
What is the equator?
300
This is everything that surrounds and affects living things.
What is the environment?
300
This is a region that gets little rain.
What is the desert?
300
These are things that nature cannot replace or renew once they are used.
What are nonrenewable resources?
300
These three things affect climate.
What is distance from the equator, distance from the ocean, and elevation?
400
This is a half sphere, or globe.
What is a hemisphere?
400
California's ____________ and water affect where people live and what they do.
What is land?
400
This is a low area that has water on or near the surface of the land.
What is a wetland?
400
This is something such as wind or sunshine that must be used when and where it is available.
What is a flow resource?
400
___________ ___________ is the lowest, hottest, and driest place in North America.
What is Death Valley?
500
Describe California's location in one way.
on the Pacific Ocean, West Coast of the United States, north of Mexico, south of Oregon
500
Natural forces such as ___________, earthquakes, and erosion create and reshape California's landforms.
What are volcanoes?
500
California's _____________, regions, and climates have attracted many people to live and work in the state.
What are resources?
500
Name a natural resource and how it is used.
Answers may vary.
500
Geographers ask these four questions about places.
Where is it? What is it like? Why is it there? How has it changed?
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