{"id":23667,"date":"2026-08-30T01:01:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T19:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/why-is-the-sierra-nevada-central-to-california-hydrology\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T01:01:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T19:01:40","slug":"why-is-the-sierra-nevada-central-to-california-hydrology","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/why-is-the-sierra-nevada-central-to-california-hydrology\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the Sierra Nevada central to California hydrology?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is the Sierra Nevada central to California hydrology?<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>It lies outside California.<\/li>\n<li>It contains no rivers or snow.<\/li>\n<li>It prevents all precipitation.<\/li>\n<li>It stores significant winter precipitation as high-elevation snow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[3305,3309],"subject":[1846],"education_level":[1897],"class_list":["post-23667","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-california-facts","topic-california-geography","subject-geography-of-the-united-states","education_level-graduate"],"mcq_note":"<p><strong>It stores significant winter precipitation as high-elevation snow.<\/strong> is correct. The Sierra Nevada strongly influences California hydrology by storing winter precipitation as snow at high elevations.<\/p>","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"It lies outside California."},{"right":"no","answer":"It contains no rivers or snow."},{"right":"no","answer":"It prevents all precipitation."},{"right":"yes","answer":"It stores significant winter precipitation as high-elevation snow."}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":1846,"title":"Geography of the United States","slug":"geography-of-the-united-states"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":3305,"title":"California Facts","slug":"california-facts"},{"id":3309,"title":"California Geography","slug":"california-geography"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/23667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=23667"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=23667"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=23667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}