This prep exam is designed for elementary school students studying social science and history in California.

It serves as a valuable resource for practicing and preparing for their California Social Science and History Class.

The exam covers a wide range of topics related to government, culture, and other essential factors within the field of social science. Some specific topics covered include geography, citizenship, environment, landscapes, landmarks, government, presidents, and law.

 

What is an important building or monument?
landmark

what can be something in nature or something humans build?
landmark

What is the business of providing hotels, restaurants and entertainment for visitors?
tourism

What are companies that create some of the most advanced technology in the world?
high-tech

Google and Apple are example of what?
high-tech

Select the examples of landmarks in California.
Point Reyes National Seashore
Redwood National Park
Mojave National Preserve

Where does California grow most of vegetables?
California Central Valley

Select the types of fruits and vegetable that grow in the California Central Valley.
olives
walnuts
almonds

What can you find in the Mojave Desert?
Joshua Tree
Chuckwallas

What is an important landmark and symbol of America?
The White House

Where does the president of the United States live?
The White House

Where does the California Governor live?
The Governers Mansion

What is the name of the current President of the United States?
Joe Biden

Who is the California Governor?
Gaven Newsom

What is an official symbol of a place?
state seal

Who is the California leader of the executive branch?
governor

What refers to the arts, beliefs, behaviors and ideas of a group of people?
culture

What is a person who moves from one country to live in a different country?
immigrant

Who is a person that goes to an unfamiliar place to learn about it?
explorer

Who is a person that is famous?
celebrity

What are some examples of physical characteristics of valleys?
Can be flat.
Can be good for farming.
Can be long between mountains.

What are some examples of physical characteristics of deserts?
Can be very hot and dry.
Only few plants grow.

Choose bodies of water.
lakes
rivers
oceans

Where do farmers get water to irrigate farms?
lakes
rivers

What is a place where you can find Rattlesnakes and horned toads?
deserts

What is body of water where you can find fish, shellfish and plants like coral?
oceans

Mountains and valleys are different because valleys are have flat and mountains are tall.
True

Select features of Coastal Regions.
Santa Monica Beach
San Francisco Bay Area
Rocky Cliffs
Redwood National Park

Select features of the Central Valley Region.
walnuts
Can be good for farming.
Can be flat.

Select features of the Mountain Region.
snow

Select features of the California Desert Region.
Can be very hot and dry.
Mojave National Preserve

Do you live in a coastal region?
False

Do you live in the central valley region?
True

Select the California Indian Groups.
Shasta
Yurok
Hupa
Modoc
Washoe

Which Indian group lived the forest region?
Shasta
Yurok
Hupa

Which Indian group lived the mountain region?
Washoe

Which Indian group lived the central valley region?
Yokuts
Miwok

Which Indian group lived the coastal region?
Pomo

Rea this paragraph: The Luiseño or Payómkawichum was a California Indian group that lived near what is today Los Angeles. They depended on the area's many resources. Those living inland in valleys gathered acorns, seeds, and fruits. They also hunted using bow and arrows. Those living along the Pacific Ocean fished for shellfish like crabs and mussels. What is the main idea of this paragraph?
An Indian Group that used to live in the area of Los Angeles and they eat food by hunting animals from that region.

How did most California Indian obtained food?
they obtained food by fishing and hunting animals. They also obtained food from plants where they lived.

What did the California Indians use obsidian for?
tools
knives
arrowheads

Why do you think the Chumash needed to trade for obsidian tools?
They need to trade obsidian because they needed to hunt animals and for trading.

California Indians built homes to suit their local climate. (suit means to be convenient for or acceptable)
True

The Yurok and Cahuilla Indian group built sturdy and warm homes, what materials did they use to build their houses?
wood
palm trees

What did the California Indians use for clothing?
animal fur

Which ways did the Hupa adapted to their natural environment?
Rivers Flooded
They made shoes for the hot desert

What is a way of life that handed down over may years?
tradition

What is a special activity held for an important reason by the California Indians?
ceremony

What is called when the traditions, custom and stories are passed down by word of mouth?
folkore

How did California Indians keep their traditions alive?
By passing down their languages to the younger generations.
The practice their culture by dancing and making baskets.

Select resources Indian groups use to create art and music.
They make flutes made from long grass

Dam build across a river to catch fish _____
weir

the identity and ways of doing something is called __________
custom

All the traditions, customs and beliefs of a group is called ______
folkore

The weather that a place has over a long period of time is called _________
climate

Which of the following terms best describes the most of the earliest Californians?
fisher-gatheres

Study the image. What Indian group built this house?
Yurok

Which Indian group in California is in your local region?
Cahuilla

Read this story: Two young brothers bears fell asleep on a rock. As they slept, the rock grew and became a mountain. Mother Bear worried because she could no find her bear cubs. Finally, the animals saw the brothers at the top of the mountain. many big and strong animals tried to leap or climb to the top of the mountain. But none could help. Finally, a tiny inchworm crawled all the way to the top. He took a very long time. but the inchworm showed the brother bears how to get down safely. What is the moral, or lesson, of this traditional Miwok story?
The lesson is that you don't have to be big and strong to do great things.

What do you call 100 years?
century

What is a person who goes to an unknown place to learn about it?
explorer

What does it mean to have plenty of resources.
wealth

What is an act or instance of traveling?
voyage

What does it mean to say that you have gained something.
claimed

Read the following story and select only the answers that are true Some of the California Indians were helpful and showed the explorers where to get fresh water. The California Indians also gave the explorers sardines to eat. Not all of the meetings were peaceful. however. At one stop, Cabrillo got in a fight. He was injured. he later died from his injuries. but his crew continued on.
The explorers killed Indians too.

Select famous California explorers.
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
Francis Drake
Sebastian Viscaino

What did explorers wanted to find in California?
gold
silver
land

Why is claiming land from other people is bad?
Indians did not use borders and they live anywhere they wanted.
The explorers killed the indians for their land.
People get hurt. You don't take things that are not yours.

What are California Missions?
There were churches that helped people
Helped the Spanish control the land.

Why did the Spanish set up missions in California?
They were near Indians because there was good land for farming and water.

What is the people who came to California in 1800s came to look for?
gold
silver
land

What is an entrepreneur?
a person who starts a business

How did the railroads changed California.
Made it better for people to travel to California.

Which people worked very hard to built the railroads?
Mexican
Chinese
German
Ireland

When was gold discovered in California?
1847

What is a treaty?
An Agreement

What are some resources in California?
water
palm trees
Can be long between mountains.
mountains
oceans

What can water be used for?
electricity
food
Can be good for farming.

Why do people build homes near rivers and forests.
water
wood

What is the affect of workers building a dam in a river?
Fish cannot swim through a dam
can create electricity
the little animals could be sad because they can't swim across the water anymore

What is a generation?
a period oftime when the birth of parents and the birth of their children.

What is what happened 100 years ago?
past

What is a time occurring right now?
present

What is a period of time that will happen later?
future

What could happen for a building to change from being a factory to an apartment building?
The company went out of business
A store that sold farm equipment is now empty

What do you thing California needs to work on now for a better future when you are an adult?
Make electricity cheaper
Use less water
Use less polution

Choose two events that might cause a community to grow?
Build a school
Build a walmart
build houses
tell government to save money

Read this story: Now the sheep are gone... pastoral life gave way to the agriculture and that in turn to the town and city. There is Long Beach. Once it was cattle range, then sheep pasture, then when I first knew it, a barley field with one shed.. And the beach was our won private wonderful breach... nobody knows what a wide, smooth, long beach it was. it was covered with shells and piles of kelp and a broad band of tnty clams; there were gulls and many little shore birds, and never a footprint except the few we made, only to the washed away by the next tide. How is this picture of long beach different from the story?
Before there were no buildings
Not many people on the beach
Before there were farms

What is something that people share with a common background or culture?
ethnicity

What is something handed down from the past? For example a gift by will especially of money or other personal property
legacy

What is something that is handed down from the past, as a tradition?
heritage

Hispanic culture is a large part of California's cultural legacy. Four of California's biggest cities have Spanish Names, Select the cities with Spanish names.
Los Angelese
San Francisco Bay Area
San Jose
San Diego
Sacramento

Why are traditions important?
Traditions help use learn from our old family.

Select elements of culture.
ethnicity
food
music and dance

Explorers traveled in ships. What is a explorer's trip called?
voyage

Spain wanted to _____ California as part of Spain.
claimed

A time period of 100 years is called a ______
decade

Which of these events happened first?
Ranchos were created in California

What details can tell you that this is not a modern car?
tires

What is a constitution?
A plan for how a country will work.

Why is the U.S. Constitution important?
Because it helps the government work for the people
Because it helps everyone follow the laws

Who was a bad president of the United States?
Donald Trump

What does the Legislative (congress) branch do?
Makes the laws

What does the executive branch do?
President of the United States

What does the judicial branch do?
The Supreme Court

Who leads the legislative branch?
Senators and Representatives

Who leads the executive branch?
The president and the vice president

who leads the judicial branch?
Justices

Why our government needs the U.S. Constitution?
Because the U.S. needs a good plan for the government to work

Why it is important to have three branches of government and not just one branch?
To have a separation of powers.

Select some leaders in our government.
Joe Biden
Gaven Newsom