With an estimated population of 1,381,069 as of July 1, 2014, San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest in California. It is part of the San DiegoTijuana conurbation, the second-largest transborder agglomeration between the US and a bordering country after DetroitWindsor, with a population of 4,922,723 people. San Diego is the birthplace of California and is known for its mild year-round climate, natural deep-water harbor, extensive beaches, long association with the United States Navy and recent emergence as a healthcare and biotechnology development center.

Historically home to the Kumeyaay people, San Diego was the first site visited by Europeans on what is now the West Coast of the United States. Upon landing in San Diego Bay in 1542, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claimed the entire area for Spain, forming the basis for the settlement of Alta California 200 years later. The Presidio and Mission San Diego de Alcala, founded in 1769, formed the first European settlement in what is now California. In 1821, San Diego became part of the newly-independent Mexico, which reformed as the First Mexican Republic two years later. In 1850, it became part of the United States following the MexicanAmerican War and the admission of California to the union.

Answer this series of questions:

1. When did San Diego become part of the United States?
2. What group of people is it historically a home to?
3. Is it the largest city in the United States?
4. What is the population?
5. Who claimed the by for Spain?
6. What year was that?
7. What happened in 1821?
8. What is the weather there?
9. Are there beaches?
10. What military branch is based there?
11. Is became part of the US after what war?
12. Is it the largest city in California?
13. It is called the "what" of California?
14. What else it is known for?
15. What is it part of?
16. What is that?
17. Who is first largest?
18. When Juan Cabrillo claimed it, what basis did it form?
19. How many years later?
20. What did independent Mexico reform into?
1. 1850
2. Kumeyaay people
3. No
4. 1,381,069
5. uan Rodriguez Cabrillo
6. 1542
7. It became part of the newly-independent Mexico
8. mild year-round climate,
9. Yes
10. United States Navy
11. MexicanAmerican War
12. no
13. birthplace
14. recent emergence as a healthcare and biotechnology development center.
15. San DiegoTijuana conurbation
16. agglomeration between the US and a bordering country
17. DetroitWindsor
18. the settlement of Alta California
19. 200
20. First Mexican Republic