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

• Los Angeles

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

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

The area in the center of California, where there are many farms and agricultural business, is called_______________.

• Death Valley

• The Central Valley

• the Mojave Desert

• the San Andreas Fault

What is lowest point in California

• Death Valley

• Mt. Whitney

• Nevada

• Sacramento