CA Studies Weekly-Week 1 4th Grade

The Earth is made mostly of rock and ___________. The outer, thin layer is called the__________.

• sand, mantle

• metal, crust

• leaves, core

• dirt, sheet

Before the 1400s, there weren't many attempts to make

___________. Then a German merchant and navigator named Martin Benhaim produced a globe. It didn't have the _________on it because they hadn't been discovered.

• maps, Americas

• ships, countries

• books, Europe

• trips, oceans

Large body of water off the coast of California:

• Los Angeles

• Death Valley

• Pacific Ocean

• Sacramento

The second most populated city in the United States.

• Mount Whitney

• Sacramento

• Pacific Ocean

• California

The highest point in the continental United States.

• Mount Whitney

• California

• Death Valley

• Pacific Ocean

The state capital of California.

• Mount Whitney

• Sacramento

• California

• Death Valley

Why do people along the western part of the state of California need to be prepared for earthquakes?

• Shifting weather patterns caused by the jet stream can create earthquakes.

• Underwater volcanos erupting in the Pacific Ocean can cause earthquakes on land.

• Mining in the Sierra Nevada-Cascade Range causes shifts in the Earth’s crust.

• The shifting of the Earth's plates at the San Andreas Fault can cause earthquakes.

Without the Sierra Nevada-Cascade Range, the land of California would be a ___________.

• prairie

• rainforest

• desert

• basin

Along the western coast of California, two plates of the Earth’s crust meet at a______________.

• seam

• fault

• hinge

• canyon

How does the Sierra Nevada-Cascade Range help communities that are to the west of the mountain range?

• The mountains provide much of the area where farming takes place and provide much of the food for the people of California.

• Many tourists visit this region of California each year, making it the most important tourist attraction in the state

• The mountains provide much of the water needed by the western valleys for agriculture and drinking water.

• A majority of the people in the state of California live in the mountain region of the state.