An area of land often shaped like a triangle and formed by deposits of snad and mud at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
100
Climate
What is the usual weather of a place over time?
100
The four main types of resources.
What is natural resource, renewable resource, nonrenewable resource, and flow resource?
100
I am used to detemine distance on a map.
What is scale?
200
Geography
What is the study of peoples and places on Earth?
200
CA's two major mountain ranges and their location.
What is the Coast Ranges, near the coast, and Sierra Nevada, along the Nevada border?
200
Three things that affect climate.
What is distance from the equator, distance from the ocean, and elevation?
200
Four ways in which people use natural resources.
What is food, fuel, shelter, and clothing?
200
Highest point in CA.
What is Mt. Whitney?
300
CA's five neighbors.
What is Oregon, Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and the Pacific Ocean?
300
Three forces that change CA's landforms over time.
What is volcanoes, earthquakes, and erosion?
300
CA's four main regions
What is coast, mountains, central valley, and desert?
300
Reason the Colorado River is important to Los Angeles.
What is it is a source of the city's water?
300
Direction you would travel to get from San Francisco to Fresno.
What is southeast?
400
The United States, North America, and the Northern hemisphere.
What is the country, continent, and hemisphere in which CA is located?
400
Reasons to protect CA's water
What is we depend on it for drinking, farming, shipping, etc... and by protecting it we can continue to use it?
400
Reasons snow in the mountain region is important to CA.
What is melting snow flows into rivers and streams, to be used in homes, businesses, and farms?
400
Reasons that renewable resources need to be used carefully.
What is if to much of a resource is used, it cannot be renewed?
400
Two large cities located in the coastal region.
What is Los Angeles and San Francisco?
500
The four questions that geographers ask.
What is where is it, what is it like there, why is it there, and how has it changed?
500
Person who worked to preserve beautiful places in CA and two of the places he protected.
Who is John Muir? and What is Yosemite National Park, King's Canyon National Park, and Sequoia National Park?
500
The reason that CA has so many differnt climate regions.
What is because CA is so large, some places are farther from the equator than others, some are nearer to the ocean than others, and some places are higher elevation than others?
500
Name an example of a natural resource, a renewable resource, a nonrenewable resource, and a flow resource.
What is sun, plants, coal, and wind?
500
The symbol most often used to denote the states capitol on a mp.