Industry
With two of the largest ports in the United States, shipping is an important industry in this California region.
What is the coastal region?
This California region is a big plain.
What is the Central Valley?
Found in the mountains, this is California's largest water source.
What is snow melt?
This region is known for extreme temperature changes.
What is the desert region?
This Central Valley city is our state capital.
What is Sacramento?
Attracting visitors from all over the world, this is an important industry in all of California.
What is tourism?
California is known for this iconic landform type found in the coastal region.
What are beaches?
These are the largest trees in the world and can be found in the mountain region.
What is Sequoia?
In the north, this region is known for cool, foggy days, but in the south, there is almost year round sunny days.
What is the coastal region?
This mineral was once mined in Death Valley and is still mined in California's desert region.
What is borax?
The California desert region has one of the largest concentrations of these power plants.
What is solar?
With the lowest elevation in North America, found in the desert region, this area sits 282 feet below sea level.
What is Death Valley? (Badwater Basin)
A keystone species, this animal protects giant kelp forests by eating sea urchins.
What are sea otters?
You can find year round snow in this region.
What is the mountain region?
Both primarily driven by tectonic plate movement, these two natural events formed California's mountainous coastline.
What are volcanoes and earthquakes?
Historically, forestry has been an important industry in this California region.
What is the mountain region?
Found in the mountain region, this is the highest point in the lower US.
What is Mt. Whitney?
It only took 75 years after the discovery of gold to hunt this native California animal to extinction.
What is the California grizzly bear?
Weather conditions over a long period of time.
What is climate?
Most Californians live in this region.
What is the coast?
California's valley region only makes up 1% of US farmland, but it still produces this amount of the country's food.
What is 25%?
These two California river systems flow through the Central Valley.
What is the Sacramento and San Joaquin?
This desert animal seldom needs to drink and absorbs water from the food they eat.
What is a desert kit fox?
Death Valley holds a world record for hitting this temperature in 1913.
What is 134 degrees F?
This nickname describes Sierra conifer forests likely to be replaced by shrubs and bushes (chaparral), because the forest is living in too hot conditions.
What is a zombie forest?