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Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Unit 1 Lesson 3: How are the areas of California different?

Book: Our California, History-Social Science for California
Author: William E. White, Ph.D.
U-$0.33-B-0.006065-BE-55
Unit: 1, The Land of California
Lesson: 3, How are the areas of California different?
Page: 11-18

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1. An area in which places share similar features is called a region.
2. California has 4 regions.
3. The regions are called coast, mountain, valley, and desert.
4. A landform is a natural feature of Earth's surface, such as a mountain or hill.
5. A capital is a city where a country's or state's central government is located.
6. The coast region is located next to the Pacific Ocean.
7. The mountain region is in Northern California next to the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
8. The valley region is located between the coastal region and the mountain region.
9. The desert region is located in the southern part of the state.
10. A desert gets less than 10 inches of rain.
11. Creosote bushes and sagebrush
12. Tourism is the business of providing services to visitors.
13. Douglas Fir is the name of California's most important timber tree.
14. San Joaquin Valley and Sacramento Valley are the names of the Central Valley.
15. The Imperial Valley gets its water from the All-American Canal that brings it from the Colorado River.

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