California Geology

9. The geology of California underlies the state's wealth of natural resources as well as its natural hazards. As a basis for understanding this concept:

-----A .Students know the resources of major economic importance in California and their relation to California's geology.

-----B .Students know the principal natural hazards in different California regions and the geologic basis of those hazards.

-----C .Students know the importance of water to society, the origins of California's fresh water, and the relationship between supply and need.

-----D .Students know how to analyze published geologic hazard maps of California and know how to use the map's information to identify evidence of geologic events of the past and predict geologic changes in the future.