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__**Location, Climate, Vegetation and Natural Resources of the Different Regions in California**__
//Note: We will not create pages on the southern coastal region as another school is reporting on the Chumash Indians.//

Desert Mountains Central Valley Northern Coast

**The Four Regions of California: //Coastal, Mountains, Valley, and Desert//**
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California's Northern Coastal weather is mostly windy, rainy, and cold. It can also be sunny, hot and cloudy.
Most years there are about eighty inches of rain.

From the lush redwood forests of the north to the wide, sandy beaches of the south,
Some vegetation is grass. The Northern Coast vegetation includes redwoods, oak, sage brush,pine trees, cedar, and numerous berry bushes.

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Central Valley
//__Location__// The Central Valley lies between the coast region, and the Sierra Nevada.

//__Natural Resources__// The Central Valley has rich soil, oak trees, and large rivers.

__//Climate//__ The Central Valley is hot, dry, cool, damp, and can have a dense fog that comes from the Pacific Ocean. On a summer day it is 90 degrees fahrenheit. The best time of year to gather food in preparation for the winter is when the weather is damp/cool.

//__Vegetation__// Grasses, bushes, and small trees are the main vegetation, or plant life, in these drier areas. Oak trees, gray pine, nuts, sugar pine nuts, grasses, bushes, small trees,and they would use tulies to make baskets and also. They make the ground into their meal. The main vegetation in the Central Valley

Click here to learn about the Native American Tribes of the Central Valley: Maidu and Yokuts.

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Mountains
__Climate__ The mountains of California are cold, rainy and, snowy. They are very hot in the summer and warm and moist in the fall and spring.

__Vegetation__ In the mountains there are many different types of vegetation, such as the giant sequoia, whose trunk can grow up too 80 feet around. There are lots of trees, bushes, and shrubs and they had lots of wood and leaves. There are lots of flowers. A lot of the flowers are endangered such as lupines and zauschneria. There are alpine trees, oak trees, riparian trees and coniferous trees.

__Location__ The Sierra Nevada mountains are located in the east of California.

__Natural Resources__ There are lots of natural resources in the mountains. Water is convenient for drinking. Trees are special because it gives you air to breath. Rocks are natural resources and you can make things with them.

Click here to learn about the tribes of the Mountains Region: the Sierra Miwoks and the Yokuts.
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Desert
__Climate__ In the desert region it can get up to 134 degrees F. The desert gets less than 32 in. of rain per year. The climate in the desert region is hot and dry.It can be over 100 degrees on the ground which is very hot because the sun's ray's beat down on it directly overhead.By the way one inch of rain falls.

__Vegetation__: Plants in the desert are sticky, smooth, prickly, poisonous, and dry. The reason why they feel like this is because that's how they defend themselves.

__Natural Resources:__ There are lots of natural resources in the desert. Also lots of animals that you never would believe that they are real. You couldn't find too much water there either.

__Location__ The desert region is in southern part of California. It lays between the San Bernardino Mountains to the valleys of the San Jacinto and Santa Rosa Mountains.

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Click here to learn about the tribes who lived in the Desert Region of California: the Cahuilla and the Mohave. ======

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