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If you were traveling from Monterey on the California Coast to visit Yosemite National Park, on the eastern side of the state, what three major land forms would you pass through? (in order)
A) The Klamath Mountains, the Cascade Range and the Modoc Plateau.
B) The Transverse Ranges, the Mojave Desert and the Great Basin.
C) The Coast Ranges, the Central Valley and the Sierra Nevadas.
D) The Central Valley, the Sierra Nevadas and the Great Basin.

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The Sierra Nevada and Coast Mountain Ranges fall and elevate by a few millimeters each year. As a result of winter rains and summer groundwater pumping in California's Central Valley. Thus, option C is correct.

What three major land forms in California?

According to calculations by a group of geophysicists, gradual depletion of the Central Valley aquifer caused by groundwater pumping also raises these mountain ranges by a comparable amount each year.

Roughly the thickness of a dime—with a cumulative rise over the past 150 years of up to 15 centimeters (ca. 6 inch).

Therefore, The Coast Ranges, the Central Valley and the Sierra Nevadas. putting stress on the state's faults and raising the possibility of an earthquake.

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