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A Township is how long? |
36 square miles |
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Los Angeles lies where from Reno nevada? |
East |
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A common 17th century misconception by cartographer was that california was what? |
An island |
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Who controlled california prior to before the treaty of cordoba in 1821? |
Spain |
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After 1821 california was controlled by who? |
Mexico |
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Ratio, written, and graphic are kinds of what? |
Map scales |
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What do you call lines of longitude? |
Meridans |
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California is part of the Pacific ________. ___. ________ |
Ring of fire |
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California was ceded in what year to the United states in the treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo? |
1848 |
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California lies between what coordinate points? |
32 N and 42 N |
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Why are the chocolate mountains called that? |
Because of their dark coloring |
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Mediterranean climate covers what percent of the earth's land surface? |
Only 2 percent |
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Colton hall is the site of California's what? |
First constitutional convention |
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The largest shifting rock masses of the earth's litho sphere are known as what? |
Tectonic plates |
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The proposed state of Jefferson included what? |
Counties in northern california and southern oregon |
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The plutons that forms most of California's mountains were created during what? |
Mesozoic era |
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Off shore of northern california the ___________ _____________ is subducting under the north American plate |
Gorda plate |
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Strongest earthquake to strike california was? |
Owen's Valley earthquake in 1872 |
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The san andreas is a what fault? |
A transform fault |
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_____________. Rocks must be exposed to heat and pressure to reach their final form |
Metamorphic |
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The most widely distributed intrusive rock in california is what? |
Granite |
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Franciscan complex is a rock group found where? |
Coast Range |
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The most massive form of igneous plutonic intrusion is a what? |
Batholith |
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In the course of the rock cycle ________ creates igneous rock |
Magma |
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Cal Poly lies on the ________ tectonic plate? |
Pacific |
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What part of California has the most extensive volcanic area? |
Northeast |
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Medicine Lake a shield volcano is what? |
The largest volcano by area and the Cascades |
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Who hid out among the lava beds of the Modoc plateau in the 1870s? |
Captain Jack |
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The Central Valley is filled with what 1000's of feet thick? |
Sediment |
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When bedrock is fractured by weathering it is called what? |
Regolith |
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Located near Mammoth Mountain ____________ is one of the world's largest calderas |
Long valley |
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At a convergent tectonic plate boundary mafic oceanic rock subducts under felsic continental rock because mastic Rock is what? |
Denser |
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Michelle Caverns is an example of what? |
Limestone cavern |
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The Geysers in Sonoma and Lake Counties have the world's largest geothermal power capacity most of which is operated by what? |
Calpine |
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________ is the cause of marine terraces |
Tectonic uplift |
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In 1857 was the last time there was major movement on the what? |
The southern segment of the San Andreas Fault |
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The ____________ is the main river of the Modoc plateau |
Pit River |
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The most destructive earthquake in the United States history was what? |
Northridge |
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The Trinity Alps are part of the what? |
Klamath mountains |
Mountain |
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The panamint Valley is the __________ and ________ physiographic region |
Basin and Range |
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Lake bottoms that have dried out are called what? |
Playas |
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La Conchita, on the coast between Ventura and Santa Barbara with a side of a notable what? |
Landslide |
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A mountain valley carved by glaciers is identified by its what? |
U-shaped cross section |
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The East Pacific high is caused by what? |
Hadley cell circulation |
Need |
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Mount lassen is the southernmost peak in the what? |
Cascade Range |
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The only way to cool a large mass of air is to lower the pressure by what? |
Lifting it to a higher elevation |
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The mountains north of pomona are part of the what physiographic regions? |
Transverse ranges |
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Orographic precipitation requires the presence of what? |
Highlands |
Need |
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Annual rainfall totals in California what? |
Rarely fall near the long term mean |
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The climate in most of California is classified as what? |
Mediterranean |
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Mcway falls in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park drops ____________________ |
Directly into the Pacific |
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El Nino weather patterns are caused by what? |
High sea surface temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific |
Need |
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An ecosystem consists of which factors? |
Biotic and abiotic |
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The ________ is the food web starting points for the detrital web |
Organic debris |
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Xerophytes and xeric animals are most commonly found in California's what? |
Deserts |
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The creation of diversity of species through the process of natural selection is called what? |
Evolution |
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What becomes extinct over geological time? |
All species |
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In the early 1920s the Los Angeles basin produced over one fifth of what? |
Us oil |
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Natural gas production in California is concentrated where? |
Sacramento Valley |
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A species likely to be found in coastal sand dune and beach communities is the what? |
El Segundo blue butterfly |
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What animal is on the California state flag? |
The grizzly bear |
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The California fan palm in native only to the what? |
Southern California deserts |
Need |
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A mutualistic symbiosis exist between what and what? |
Yucca moths and Joshua trees |
Need |
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The habitat community where you find the coast redwood is the what? |
Coastal coniferous forest |
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Mountain lion survive by hunting over areas larger than how many square miles? |
100 |
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The what is located in the Sierra Nevadas western foothills? |
Mother lode |
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The Fringed toad lizard is well adapted to what? |
Wind blown sand |
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Riparian communities are found near where? |
Streams |
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The leading counties in mineral reserves are where? |
San Bernardino Siskiyou and Calaveras |
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Eucalyptus and is an example of an what? |
Introduced species |
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The tree line is caused by what? |
A short growing season |
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More than how many bald eagles winter in California each year? |
600 |
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Like the Bison of the Great Plains what were the large grazers of the Central Valley? |
Tule elk and pronghorn antelope |
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Grizzly bears were hunted to extinction in California in what year |
1910 |
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Up to 5 million monarch butterfly's winter on the California coast near where? |
Morro Bay and Monterey |
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Redwood National Park can be found in the what physiographic region? |
Northern coast ranges |
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Cistomontane means what? |
This side of the mountains |
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What deer is the only native deer in California? |
Mule deer |
Mulan |
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Some chaparral plans are what because they only germinate and grow after fires? |
Pyrophyte endemics |
Firefight end |
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What percent of California's runoff occurs in the Sacramento River system and North Coast streams? |
70 percent |
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How much of the precipitation that falls on California evaporates either directly or through evapo-transpiration? |
Three quarters |
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The last 150 years of rainfall have been what compared to the longer term historical average? |
Wetter than average |
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What contributes to June gloom? |
Inland thermal low pressure |
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What fills during the winter and evaporated to nothing over the dry season? |
Vernal pools |
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The Spanish imposed control over water resources in which the water was owned by who? |
King of Spain |
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American political control of water rights in the 19th century resulted in what? |
Chaos and water wars |
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In 1913 water was brought to Los Angeles from where? |
The Owen's Valley |
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San Francisco built what to get water from where? |
Built an aqueduct, get water from Yosemite national park |
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The only source of water for the Imperial Valley is where? |
All American canal |
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The Metropolitan Water District import water from where? |
The Colorado River |
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California's largest lizard grows to 40 centimeters in length |
The chuckwalla |
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What are not a threat to the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta? |
Engineered levees |
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The most common shrub throughout the Mojave and Colorado desert is the what? |
Creosote bush |
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The Sacramento San Joaquin Delta is less than 1% of California yet except what percentage of the state's runoff from precipitation? |
40 percent |
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The US Supreme Court case Arizona versus California in 1963 was over what issue? |
The allocation of the Colorado River water |
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The California Aqueduct delivers water from northern and central California mountains to where? |
Southern California |
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Anza-borrego desert State Park is located in the what physiographic region? |
Colorado desert |
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California is the what largest state in area after what two states? |
3rd largest after Texas and Alaska |
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The elevation range of California from its lowest point to the highest is about how many feet? |
15000 feet |
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The internal structure of a place for example its terrain size geology and climate is called what? |
It's site |
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