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Locating Places
Dividing Earth
California Regions
Coming to Calif.
California Communities
100
a symbol that shows the main directions on a map
What is a compass rose?
100
one half of Earth
What is a hemisphere?
100
an area that receives less than ten inches of rainfall each year
What is the desert?
100
to move and set up a new place
What is settle?
100
Name the three types of communities found in California.
What are rural, urban and suburban?
200
The exact or nearly exact location of a place on Earth
What is absolute location?
200
the weather patterns in a place over a long period of time
What is climate?
200
The city and region in which California's state capital is located
What is Sacramento, the valley region?
200
a useful material that comes from the earth; what is it, and give an example
What is natural resource? Examples: rich soil, water, trees, minerals, oil
200
the main form of industry in many rural areas
What is agriculture?
300
The line of latitude that circles the middle of Earth
What is the equator?
300
the two points where all of Earth's lines of longitude meet
What are the north pole and south poles?
300
True or false: California's southern coast has sandy beaches while the northern coast has mountains and redwood trees.
What is TRUE?
300
the reason San Francisco and Los Angeles may have been easier areas to settle
What is "they are located on the coast which allowed for easier traveling, like a highway?"
300
The style and design of a building: for example, Spanish style in Santa Barbara.
What is architecture?
400
The earth's main line of longitude
What is the prime meridian?
400
places at or near the equator usually have this kind of climate
What is warm climate?
400
the names of the two flattest, lowest regions in California which have good natural resources such as water and rich soil for farming
What are the Sacramento and San Juaquin Valleys?
400
how early settlers in California were able to get across the Sierra Nevada mountains
What is "through mountain passes?"
400
Name at least 3 forms of transportation available in San Francisco (not including airplanes)
What are calbe cars, trolleys, buses, trains, ferries, subways, cars
500
The two types of lines that form a grid system and are measured in degrees
What are latitude and longitude?
500
True or false: the Tropic of Cancer is the southernmost point where the sun shines directly overhead.
What is FALSE?
500
What industry do all of the regions of California have in common?
What is tourism?
500
name 2 reasons why people might have chosen to settle in a particular area of California
What are: type of climate; availability of natural resources; how easy it was to get there from where they came from; enough food/land?
500
Name the one thing that ALL California communities have in common
What is "people live and work there?"