California Geographic Assembly

3. Identify the state capital and describe the various regions of California, including how their characteristics and physical environments (e.g., water, landforms, vegetation, climate) affect human activity.||CA History/Social Science||Grade 4||California: A Changing State||4.1 Students demonstrate an understanding of the physical and human geographic features that define places and regions in California.|||5. Waves, wind, water, and ice shape and reshape the Earth’s land surface.||CA Science||Grade 4||03. Earth Sciences|||1.f. How to explain major features of California geology in terms of plate tectonics (including mountains, faults, volcanoes).||CA Science||Grade 6||01. Focus on Earth Science||1. Plate tectonics explains important features of the Earth’s surface and major geologic events.