1. Clue of the day: The land of the gold rush and Levis jeans

2. The state of California

3. Size and population
California is the third largest state in the United States.
It has a population of about 40 million people.
The state capital is Sacramento.

4. Sequoia National Park California has the tallest trees in the world.
They are called redwood.
The largest of them are over 2000 years old.
The largest living thing on earth is the General Sherman sequoia tree.
It weighs 1400 tons (the same as 360 elephants).

5. San Francisco San Francisco has 40 hills and is famous for that.
The most famous building is the Golden Gate Bridge which opened in 1937.
There was a big earthquake in San Francisco in 1906.
“Silicon Valley” is the computer centre of the USA and it´s in San Francisco.

6. Movie industry
The climate and the scenery in Los Angeles are perfect for making movies.
Filmmakers arrived in Los Angeles in 1910 and Hollywood is now the movie center of the world.
Beverley Hills is a glamorous place to live and shop in Los Angeles.

7. Sources: Magic 6 textbook www.ne.se Movie: California