ocean off the west coast of California - Pacific, sea off the coast of Texas - Gulf of Mexico, climate of southern California - Mediterranean/ warm temperate oceanic, annual rainfall in Los Angeles - 400mm, industry that drew blacks from the Deep South to LA - shipbuilding during WW2, name of the port in LA - Long Beach, name a famous beach in LA - Malibu, Santa Monica, Venice Beach, centre of the film industry in USA - Hollywood, a major film studio in Hollywood - Paramount, Universal, Disney, suburb of LA that's home to many Hollywood stars - Beverly Hills, university in SF that's closely linked to the development of computers - Stanford, area near SF that's the centre of the computer industry - Silicon Valley, year of major gold rush in San Francisco - 1849, when the transcontinental railway was completed - 1869, acts whereby the federal government granted free or very cheap land to settlers in the region in the 1860s - Homestead Acts, name given to Chinese labourers who helped build the railways - coolies, city in California with a very large Chinatown - San Francisco, city in California with a very famous zoo - San Diego, city with a major tuna fishing/canning industry - San Diego, port that's HQ for the US Pacific Naval Fleet - San Diego, when Los Angeles last hosted the Olympics - 1988, major agriculture region in California, (Market gardening & irrigation) - Central Valley, a major fault line that runs through LA and SF - San Andreas Fault, he was badly beaten by the LAPD setting off huge race riots - Rodney King, river that runs through the Grand Canyon - Colorado, dam on that provides electricity for Las Vegas - Hoover Dam, name of the reservoir behind the Hoover Dam - Lake Mead, the Hoover Dam was built across what river - Colorado, What state is the Grand Canyon in? - Arizona, a major ski resort in California - Lake Tahoe, major mountains in California - Sierra Nevadas, extremely dry desert soils - aridsols, white , chalky, alkaline, infertile soils - caliche, desert that Las Vegas is in - Mojave Desert, famous island prison in San Francisco - Alcatraz, main airport in Los Angeles - L.A X, a famous road that connects LA to Chicago - Route 66, Route 66 runs from LA to - Chicago, air pollution problem in LA - smog, HQ of NASA's flight control - Houston, 3 cities in Texas associated with the oil industry - Dallas, Houston, Austin, plant where crude oil gets processed into petro-chemical products - oil refinery, planes used to fertilise and spray huge areas of crops - crop dusters, is cattle ranching intensive or extensive agriculture - extensive, an area known for citrus farming - Orange County, California, river that forms the border with Mexico - Rio Grande, areas that are home to Native Americans - reservations, these have become a major source of income to Indian Reservations - casinos, name an Indian tribe associated with the South West - Apache, major piece of infrastructure that supplies water to LA - LA aqueduct, industrial scale method of raising cattle for cheap beef - feedlots, an area where dairy farming is practiced - Northern California, an area where there are huge wheat fields - Eastern Texas, climate along the Gulf coast in Texas - sub-tropical, extremely hot area in California that's below sea level - Death Valley, what covers the floor of Death Valley - a salt pan, a wine producing region in California - Napa Valley, electric car company from California - Tesla, a major arms company - Boeing, Lockheed Martin, soils used for cotton farming - black cotton soils, a state in the SW region where cotton is grown - Texas, a famous national park in California - Yosemite, Zion, a major car hire firm - Hertz, state where the first atom bomb was tested - New Mexico, why was New Mexico a suitable place to develop the first atom bomb? - is very sparsely populated as it's mostly desert and the land is owned by the federal government, clothing company that began in SF following the Gold Rush of 1849 - Levi Strauss, a major fruit company from California - Del Monte, event where cowboys ride bulls, bucking broncos etc - rodeo, name a casino in Las Vegas - MGM Grand, Caesar's Palace, name a black neighbourhood in LA - Compton, LA is can be divided into Eastside and Westside, which is the rich area - Westside, area of Los Angeles with many Hispanics - Eastside, another name for Hispanics - Latinos, country that used to rule California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada before the USA did - Mexico, what state is Las Vegas in? - Nevada, why are the waves in California so big and well suited for surfing? - the long fetch of the Pacific Ocean, why is Long Beach so busy as a port? - manufactured goods from China are imported through this port, what is the population of Los Angeles - 18 million, what has Trump vowed to do with the southern border? - close it, stop immigration from Mexico, build a wall, Los Angeles has excellent public transport. true or false - false, city in California with many retirees who moved from Northern cities - San Diego, an event that had a major impact on air travel in the USA - 9/11 attacks, an American low cost airline - South West Airlines, Californian city that is known as the gay capital of the USA - San Francisco, a treaty that removed many trade barriers between USA, Canada and Mexico - NAFTA, a famous bridge in San Francisco - Golden Gate bridge, line of longtitude to acts as continental divide in terms of rainfall - 100th meridian,

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