California Regions Vocabulary

What is a region?

• an area or part

• a state

• a country

• a city

What is a climate?

• the kind of plants that grow in an area

• the kind of animals that live in a place

• the weather patterns over time for an area

• the type of people who live in an area

Each region has resources. What are resources?

• houses that are located in a region

• a supply of materials or items that can be used to help an area

• an animal who lives in a particular area

• businesses that are in an area

What is a coast?

• the part of the land that is really hot and dry with very little rainfall

• the part of the land that is flat and where crops are grown

• the part of the land near the sea and at the edge of the land

• the part of the land where the land gets higher

What is a desert?

• the land near the sea and at the edge of the land

• land that rises up

• a part of the land that is dry and hot and gets very little rainfall

• a part of the land where crops are grown and it's flat

What is a mountain region?

• the part of the land that is dry and gets very little rainfall

• the part of the land that rises up

• the part of the land near the sea

• the part of the land where crops are grown and it's flat

What kind of place is the central valley region?

• a part of the land which rises up

• a part of the land along the sea

• a part of the land where crops grow and it's flat

• a part of the land that is dry and gets very little rainfall

What are industries?

• places that make products and process materials

• places that sell products

• places where you can go to sell your products

• places where people go to school to learn a job

What are adaptations?

• items you can buy to make something have new jobs

• changes that an animal or plant makes to survive somewhere

• choices your mom or dad give you when you make a mistake

• ways you can make others change to make you happy

What is weather?

• a choice

• the amount of rain, heat, moisture and dryness in the air

• how the sky looks

• what time the sun rises or sets each day