Finding Your Location
What is a community?
A group of people who live in the same place.
What is a physical feature?
The land, water, climate and plant life of a place.
What are human-made features?
What are the four regions of California?
Coast, Mountain, Central Valley, Desert
San Jose
In what continent is your community located?
North America
What are two examples of highlands and two examples of lowlands?
Mountains, hills, plateaus.
Valleys, canyons, basins.
What is the movement of people, goods, and ideas?
Are the Coast and Central Valley Regions lowlands or highlands?
What information does the map on page 22 give us?
Cities, rivers, landforms
In what country is your community located?
United States of America
How are the Sierra Nevada and Coast Mountain Ranges different?
The peaks of the Coast Ranges are rounded, while the peaks of the Sierra Nevada are pointed.
What does trade mean?
To exchange one thing for another.
What highlands will you find in the Desert Region?
Mountains, plateaus
Use page 31 - In which regions of California does the San Andreas Fault begin and end?
Coast and Desert Regions
In what state is your community located?
California
How are lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams alike?
Where do people first build communities?
Places that have fresh water and good soil.
What is population?
The number of people living in an area.
Use page 37 - Where is Washington School Park?
E4
What states border California?
Arizona, Nevada, and Oregon.
What are three factors that affect the climate of a place?
How close the place is to the equator, how close it is to a large body of water, and the Earth's physical features.
What do people build first in a new community?
Homes
Put the different types of communities in order from least to greatest by population.
Rural, suburban, urban.
Post Office