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1
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A flat valley in California between the Sierra Nevada and the Coast Ranges

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Central Valley

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2
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A mountain range in eastern California

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Sierra Nevada

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Mountain range in western California, Oregon, and Washington, on the Pacific Coast

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Coast Ranges

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4
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A river that flows 382 miles from the Sierra Nevada through northern California into San Francisco Bay

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Sacramento River

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5
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A river that flows 350 miles from the Sierra Nevada mountains through central California into San Francisco Bay

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San Joaquin River

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6
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The system of dams and canals that irrigates fields in the Central Valley of California

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Central Valley Project

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Chemicals added to soil to make it more fertile

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Fertilizers

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8
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A map that shows roads

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Road map

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9
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A road that connects cities in two or more states with at least two lanes of traffic in each direction

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Interstate highway

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10
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A mountain in Hawaii that receives nearly 500 inches of rain in most years

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Mount Waialeale

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11
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A desert in California - the driest place in the United States

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Death Valley

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The side of a mountain that is usually dry because precipitation falls on the other side

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Rain shadow

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13
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A national park in northwestern Washington that includes rain forest areas

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Olympic National Park

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A warm, wet forest where many trees and other plants grow close together

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Rain forest

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15
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A peninsula in northwestern Washington between Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean

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Olympic Peninsula

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16
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Process by which trees are cut down and transported out of the forest

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Logging

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17
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The loss of a forest by cutting down all of its trees

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deforestation

18
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Huge group of islands in the central and southern part of the Pacific Ocean

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Polynesia

19
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A tropical plant eaten as food

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Taro

20
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Founder of the kingdom of Hawaii

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Kamehameha

21
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British sea captain and explorer who was the first European to reach Hawaii and to see Australia

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James Cook

22
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Queen of Hawaii who was overthrown when a group of planters established the Republic of Hawaii

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Lydia Liliuokalani

23
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Capital of Hawaii, on the southeastern coast of the island of Oahu

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Honolulu

24
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Capital of California, in the central part of the state

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Sacramento

25
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A sudden movement of people to a place where gold has been found; especially to California

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Gold Rush

26
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A port city in central California, on the Pacific Ocean

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San Francisco

27
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A person who went to California in 1849, usually to seek gold

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Forty-Niner

28
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A mountain of the Rocky Mountains, in central Colorado

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Pike’s Peak

29
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Capital of Colorado and a former mining settlement

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Denver

30
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A town without people; used for deserted mining settlements in the West

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Ghost town

31
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Crossing an entire continent

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Transcontinental

32
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The right to vote

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Suffrage

33
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Early leader of the fight for women’s suffrage

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Susan B. Anthony

34
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Suffragist leader in Wyoming Territory

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Esther Morris

35
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City in Wyoming, former capital of Wyoming Territory

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South Pass City

36
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Montana suffragist who became the first woman member of the House of Representatives

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Jeannette Rankin

37
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First woman to serve as a governor of a state (Wyoming)

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Nellie Tayloe Ross

38
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Inventor who developed the phonograph, the telegraph, and the light bulb, and improved the movie camera

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Thomas Edison

39
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Movie director and producer who started a film company in Hollywood

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Cecil B. DeMille

40
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An area within the city of Los Angeles, California that is a major center of the file industry

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Hollywood

41
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The exchange of sights, sounds, ideas and other information, often using high technology

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Communications

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