What is the name of the gold that was mined in rivers in California?
Place Gold
100
What is 47 + (3x4)?
59
100
What is an organism?
Plants, animals, or people (alive creatures)
100
What are two tribes that lived in Sonoma County?
Pomo and Miwok
100
What zone does the sea otter live in?
Epipelagic Zone
200
What were the first prisons in San Francisco made of?
Abandoned ships
200
What are parallel lines?
Lines that never intersect (like railroad tracks)
200
What is Gold Fever?
Not a real disease, it means that many people rushed to California because they wanted to get some of the gold that they had heard about. They abandoned their jobs and moved west to strike it rich!
200
Name one use for Bison hides (skins).
Tipi, clothing, bags, jewelry, moccasins, etc
200
What is one adaption the sea otter has to survive in the cold ocean?
Thick dense fur that traps air to keep the sea otter warm.
300
Who brought gold dust from Sutter's Mill and showed it around town in San Francisco?
Sam Brannan
300
What is a right angle?
An angle that measures exactly 90 degrees
300
What is a vertebrate?
An animal with a skeleton or backbone made of bones
300
Name the place where we went on a fieldtrip this year that used to be a lake where Native Americans lived.
Tolay Regional Park
300
Name three foods the sea otter eats.
Sea urchins, crabs, clams
400
What are the two ways that 49ers traveled to California durin the Gold Rush?
Over land in wagons or by ship
400
What is an equivalent fraction for 2/4?
1/2 or 3/6 or 4/8 or 5/10.... lots of options!
400
What is the Epipelagic Zone?
The sunlit layer of the ocean (includes the surface).
400
Name one animal that Sonoma County Native Americans hunted.
Deer, Rabbits, quail, squirrels, bears, mountain lions, etc.
400
Name an animal that lives in the ocean floor in the deepest part.
Tube worms
500
Who discovered the fist gold nugget in California?
James Marshall
500
What is 34,958 in expanded form?
30,000+4,000+900+50+8
500
What is the setting in a story?
Where the story takes place
500
What is one thing that Native Americans in coastal tribes traded to other tribes that lived inland?
Shells (clam, abalone, mussel, lots more)
500
Tell how kelp is important to the sea otter's survival.
Sea otters need kelp for their habitat because they eat sea urchins, who eat kelp. Kelp also protects sea otters and allows them to hang onto it while sleeping.