California Geography Quiz! These Questions Might Just Motivate You To Learn More Of The Geography of This Incredible State

Here is the California Geography Quiz. The answers will appear in a future blog. After you have taken the quiz, if you just can't stand it anymore, email your answers to the_real_mr_science@hotmail.com and he will let you know which ones you missed. Who knows, maybe, just maybe, if you are careful and think, baby, think, you might get them all correct.

Here we GO!

Which of these pairs of California places is farther NORTH?
1. The City of Monterey or Mt. Whitney
2. Death Valley National Monument or Mt. Whitney
3. The City of Los Angeles or the City of Ventura
4. The City of Palo Alto the floor of Yosemite Valley
5. The City and County of San Francisco or the City of Berkeley
6. Mono Lake or the City of Oakland

Which of these pairs of California places is farther WEST?
1. The City of Fresno or the City of Santa Barbara
2. Lake Tahoe or the City of Santa Barbara
3. The City of Colma (San Mateo County, just South of SF) or San Simeon (Hearst Castle)
4. The City of Santa Barbara or the floor of Yosemite Valley
5. The City of San Diego or the City of San Bernardino
Bonus question on East and West. Which is farther EAST (NOT West): California or Nevada. Careful. This is not obvious.

Which of these pairs is larger in area?
1. County of San Bernardino or State of Maryland
2. County of Los Angeles or State of Rhode Island
3. The California Central Valley or State of West Virginia
4. County of Riverside or State of Vermont
5. County of Imperial or State of New Hampshire

Which of these is an ACTIVE volcano?
1. Long Valley Caldera near Mammoth Mountain
2. Medicine Lake Caldera
3. Sutter Buttes in the Northern Central valley
4. Mt. Lassen
5. Mt. Ritter
6. Mt. Shasta
7. Mono Lake
8. Lava Peak
9. Lake Tahoe

If you had the money and if the tensile strength of steel or carbon fiber cables were strong enough, you could string a straight line cable between each of these mountain peaks and a nearby location. If you did so, which of the cables would have the steepest inclination?
1. The Town of Lone Pine and Mount Whitney
2. The shore of the Pacific on the Lost Coast in Humboldt County and King Peak
3. The Town of Hammil in the Chalfont Valley and White Mountain Peak
4. The Town of Mt. Shasta and Mount Shasta itself
5. Bad Water in Death Valley and Telescope Peak in the Panamint Mountains

(My thanks to a close friend for help in making this quiz comprehensible and accurate. You know who you are.)

Good Luck!

The Real Mr. Science