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How do you locate places on Earth?
How is Earth divided?
How are the areas of California different?
How have CA landforms/water affected settlements?
How are CA communities alike and different?
100
A symbol that shows the main directions on a map.
What is a compass rose?
100
Located on the opposite ends of Earth.
What are North and South Poles?
100
This city is the capital of California.
What is Sacramento?
100
Useful materials that come from the earth, such as food, water, or materials for shelter.
What are natural resources?
100
If you grow crops and raise animals, you work in.
What is agriculture?
200
North, south, east, and west.
What are the cardinal directions?
200
Earth is divided into very large areas (northern, southern, eastern, and western).
What are hemispheres?
200
A large area in which places share similar features.
What is a region?
200
Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys have these natural resources.
What is plenty of water and rich soil?
200
These are the three types of communities in California.
What are urban, suburban, and rural areas?
300
An imaginary line that runs east-west around Earth.
What is the line of latitude?
300
California is located in these two hemispheres.
What are Northern and Western Hemispheres?
300
These are California's four major regions.
What are coast, mountain, valley, and desert region?
300
Settlers from the east had to get across which mountain range to get all the way to the west coast.
What is Sierra Nevada?
300
Los Angeles and San Francisco would be considered this type of community.
What is urban area?
400
An imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is the line of longitude?
400
The weather patterns in one place over a long period of time.
What is a climate?
400
A natural feature of Earth's surface, such as a mountain, hill, or valley.
What is a landform?
400
These are the names of two mountain passes that settlers used to get to California.
What is Beckwourth Pass and Donner Pass?
400
Refers to the moving of goods, people, or animals from one place to another.
What is transportation?
500
The line of latitude that circles the middle of Earth.
What is an equator?
500
The areas near the equator that receive the most direct sunlight.
What are the tropics? (Tropic of Cancer - northernmost point and Tropic of Capricorn - southernmost point)
500
Sacramento is located in this region.
What is central valley?
500
This river leads from the Donner Pass to the West Coast of California.
What is American River?
500
The average number of people living in a specific unit of area.
What is population density?