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Name________________________________________ Date____________________ Unit 1 Study Guide “The Land of California” You need to know what the words listed below mean: Compass rose Coast Line of latitude Desert Line of longitude Border Absolute location Settle Equator Mountain pass Prime meridian Natural resource Hemisphere Urban area Climate Suburban area Tropic of Cancer Rural area Tropic of Capricorn Agriculture Region Architecture Landform Transportation Capital Population density Know the answers to the following questions: Name the cardinal directions: _________________________________________________________________ How can lines of latitude and longitude help you locate places on earth? ______________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ Describe one way you can divide Earth into hemispheres and name the hemispheres _____________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ How are the locations of the North and South Poles similar? ________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ How are the locations of the North and South Poles different? _______________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ Name California’s four regions________________________________________________________________ Describe the weather in the desert region._______________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ Which regions in our state support each of the following industries: timber__________________ Fishing ______________, Mining _______________and ________________, farming ________________ and _____________________, and tourism _________________________________________________________ In the 1800’s, how did settlers coming to California by land from the East travel across the Sierra Nevada __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ Why did few people settle in the mountains and the desert? __________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ Be able to locate the following items on the map of California (use your map, the atlas in the book, and pg 20) Sacramento River San Joaquin River American River Donner Pass Beckworth Pass Tehachapi Pass Pacific Ocean
