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What is the brown pelican?
Can carry up to 3 gallons of water in its pouch
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What is the Columbian Mammoth?
Stands 13 feet high and weighs 10 tons.
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Who is Karana?
Was stranded on the island for 18 years after jumping over board.
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What are the Chumash Indians?
Name of the Native American tribe that used to live in the Santa Maria and Nipomo Valley.
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What is Sacramento?
The state capital of California.
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What is the sea otter?
Was almost hunted to extinction because of its valuable and dense fur.
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What is the Sabertooth-cat?
The official state fossil of California
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What is San Nicolas?
The island where the Island of Blue Dolphin takes place.
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What is an acorn?
A nut that many Chumash collected and ground into flour.
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What is Mount Whitney?
The highest point in the continental U.S (14,505 feet).
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What is the California Sea Lion?
These animals have been trained by the U.S. navy to look and find dangerous objects in the ocean.
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What is the Jefferson Ground Sloth?
Uses its muscular tail for as a third leg for extra stability, helping support its body weight.
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Who are the Aleuts?
The group of Russian hunters that often came to the island to hunt for otter.
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What are the Channel Islands?
Name of the group of islands off the coast of California.
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What is "I Love You, California"?
The name of the song of California.
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What is the Santa Cruz Island Fox?
Was nearly extinct when scientists led the way to rebuild their habitat.
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What is a fossil?
The remains or impression of an animal preserved in a rock.
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What is an elephant seal?
The giant sea animal that Karana took a tusk from for making weapons.
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What is the Bering Strait or Sea?
The name of the sea that most believe that the first Native Americans crossed to come to America.
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What is Death Valley?
The lowest and hottest place in California.
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What is the California Quail?
The California state bird.
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What is the La Brea Tar Pits?
The place in California where many animals were trapped in tar.
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What are cormorant feathers?
Karana worked hard to make a skirt out of these bird feathers.
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What are pine nuts?
A type of nut that was harvested by roasting the green cones.
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What is the General Sherman?
The world's largest tree.
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