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Native Americans

Answer as many as you can in the time provided

1. What are the names we use today for the islands inhabited or used by Native Americans in pre-history ? What did the native peoples call the islands ? Match these names up.

2. How many years had they lived along the Channel or on the islands before the arrival of the European settlers ?

3. What were the names of the two main Native American groups living along the Channel and on the Islands ? (use names given to them by Europeans / Americans )

4. Describe their houses and villages :

5. How did they travel ?

6. What did they trade ?

7. Draw a picture of one or more of their art or crafts :

8. Which of their stories is your favorite ? And why ?

9. What foods did they eat from the sea ?

10. What foods did they eat from the land ?

  1. What dangers did the Native Americans face with the arrival of European settlers ?

How many Native Americans were there when the European settlers arrived ? How many where there by the end of the 1800s ?

12. What do you think we can learn today from the Channel’s original Native American inhabitants ?

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Explorers and Settlers

Answer as many as you can in the time provided

  1. Who were the first European explorers to visit the Channel ?
  1. What did they find when they arrived ?
  1. How did they reach the Channel and why did they come ? Draw a picture of their means of transportation to reach the Channel on the reverse side.
  1. There were gaps of many years between the different European explorations of the Channel region. Once it was determined that it was worth inhabiting, which was the first European group to create permanent settlements?
  1. Why did they create these settlements? Under whose direction?
  1. What happened to the native inhabitants when these foreigners arrived?
  1. What types of structures did the settlers build and how were they used?
  1. What is the difference between the pirates and the privateers who sailed the Channel?
  1. What happened to the Native Americans when the Mission System gave way to Mexican ranchos?
  1. When did California become a State?
  1. What happened on the Channel Islands when The United States annexed California from Mexico?
  1. Were shipwrecks a problem in the Channel? If so, why?

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Romance of the Channel

Answer as many as you can in the time provided

  1. Which of the Channel Islands has supported large ranches?
  1. Which islands had mining operations?
  1. Which families developed Santa Cruz Island?
  1. What crops and livestock did they introduce?
  1. Which families developed Santa Catalina Island? What businesses did they do on the island?
  1. Which businesses did the most damage to the islands?
  1. What business operations take place right on or in the Channel waters? What are their problems?
  1. What authors have you learned lived on or wrote about the Channel Islands?
  1. Were movies made on the islands? If so, what kind?
  1. Which celebrity who visited the islands would you most like to have met?
  1. Surf culture expressed itself in several ways - what were the art and lifestyles shaped around surf culture?
  1. Painters and Photographers have sought to capture the Islands on canvas and in prints. Which of the works of a CampInternet artist shown online do you think best captures the Channel Islands?

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Earth and Life Studies

Answer as many as you can in the time provided

  1. What types of prehistoric animal fossils have been found on the Channel Islands?
  1. How did early mammals get out to the Islands?
  1. What caused some of these early animals to become smaller than their mainland counterparts? Which ones dwarfed?
  1. Which ones became larger?
  1. Draw a picture of a pygmy mammoth standing beside an imperial mammoth on the reverse side of the paper.
  1. What forces have shaped the Islands from their formation to how we see them

today ?

  1. What Channel event triggered a nationwide environmental movement? And when?
  1. How can the Internet help you study the night sky?
  1. What natural forces have shaped the geography of the Channel region?
  1. What are the names and heights of the tallest mountains on the Channel Islands - tallest to lowest?
  1. How was the geography of the northern Channel Islands different during the Pleistocene Ice Age? Draw what they look like today and what they looked like then on the reverse.

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Marine Studies

Answer as many as you can in the time provided

1. What is upwelling? When and why does it happen?

2. What ocean currents meet in the Channel waters and what does this cause?

3. Describe what area is called the intertidal zone.What forces of the planets effect the intertidal zone? What creatures live in the intertidal zone?

4. What is the splash zone? Who lives there?

5. What is the high tide zone? Who lives there?

6. When is the low tide area exposed to the air? Who lives in the low tide zone?

7. How and where do tidepools form?

8. Kelp forests are an important part of the Channel’s ecology – how tall does kelp get?

How long does it live?

9. What helps them float in the sea?

10. What keeps them from floating away so they can grow into mature plants?

11. What are the three layers of a kelp forest? And who lives at the different layers?

12.Name six products made commercially, that you could find in a grocery store or garden supply store, that have seaweed as an ingredient.

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Island Plants

Answer as many as you can in the time provided

  1. What are common wildflowers found on many of the islands?
  1. Name a rare flower found on one of the islands.
  1. Name tress found on the Channel Islands.
  1. What tree that has lived in North America since prehistory still lives on Catalina Island, but no longer lives on the mainland?
  1. What plants did the Native Americans use for food or medicine?
  1. What introduced plants make it hard for the native plants to survive?
  1. How did non-native plants get to the islands?
  1. In the paintings of the islands on the Camp web, name a tree you see in a painting that is NOT native to the Island:
  1. What animals are particularly hard on the native plants?
  1. What measures are being taken to protect the native plants from animals?
  1. What measures are being taken to protect the native plants from introduced plants?
  1. Who is working to preserve the native plants on the islands?

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Channel Creatures and Animals

Answer as many as you can in the time provided

  1. How is it that birds can drink salt water for their fresh water source?
  1. What helps seabirds swim?
  1. Why is it especially hard for seabirds to recover from disasters, such as oil spills?
  1. What type of pollution was threatening the Brown Pelicans and caused them to be classified as endangered? What solutions have helped the Brown Pelican recover?
  1. How is it that North Pacific and equatorial tropical fish all come to visit the Channel? Which ones visit and then return to their usual waters?
  1. How many types of sharks live in the Channel?
  1. What do sharks eat? What characteristics do they have that make them good hunters?
  1. Which sharks do not prey on large fish or other sea mammals? What do these other shark eat?
  1. There have been over 150 new species recently identities in the Channel – life forms never known to man before. Who discovers these creatures as part of their job activities?
  1. Which whales and dolphins visit the Channel?
  1. What is a Pinniped? Which ones live in the Channel?

12.Name the native animals that still live on the islands.

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Channel Protectors

Answer as many as you can in the time provided

  1. What is the name of the national park ?
  1. When was it founded?
  1. What islands does it include?
  1. Is the Park building resorts on the islands or protecting them?
  1. What types of work do park rangers do for the islands?
  1. If you became an island park ranger, what type of work would you like to do?
  1. The Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary manages what area out in the channel?
  1. What type of work does the Sanctuary staff do?
  1. If the sanctuary enlarged its boundaries what are the positive results that could

occur?

  1. What might be problems enlarging it could cause?
  1. What other agencies have you learned about who also make decisions or provide services that affect the future of the Islands? Is there one you might want to work or volunteer for someday?

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