Part of Silicon Valley: Apple Campus, Cupertino, Ca

Apple Campus
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Aug 14 Mon
Information overload?
Info management skills in the quiz Thur, Aug 17.
Please see essay guidelines on 1st handout.


Why is California one of the world’s most important states?
- population
- agriculture (almonds, citrus, lettuce, flowers, grapes, raisins, etc)
- harbors on the Pacific Rim (trade w Japan, China, etc)
- education (UCLA, USC, Stanford, etc)
- entertainment / Hollywood
- communications (TV, magazines, web sites)
- social trends: health food movement, health spas, relaxed clothing,
skateboarding, hot rods & custom cars, choppers, Barbie, hippies, etc)

*** Graph the difference between the populations of Louisiana and California.

Handout for note-taking in class: Silicon Valley

Make a map of CA and color it:
San Francisco & the Bay area - Oakland, Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
Los Angeles
San Diego
Sacramento
Sierra Nevada (“mtns, snow”)
Coast Range
Colorado R.
Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, Mexico (Tijuana, Baja Peninsula)
Pacific
Pacific Rim
San Andreas fault (cataclysm)

Make a map of Los Angeles and color it:

Beverly Hills
Hollywood
Malibu
Santa Monica
Venice Beach
LAX (airport)
Disneyland (Anaheim)
Central & East LA
Orange County
Laguna Beach

Cal pop: 35.5 M / La: 4.5 M (pre-Katrina) graph them, please.
LA: 13.1 M NO: 1.2 M (pre-Katrina)
Spt: 200,000
Bossier City: 60,000


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Laptop guidelines, coming in a bit.