This region can be described as semi arid or arid. The "gold rush" brought people to this region. This region also has issues with water scarcity.
Answers: northeast, south, Midwest, west

This is all you, but i can give you some topics that you could try. if it rained when you want to do something outdoors, it 'limits' that human activity. maybe you want to do an experiment that goes throughout the whole year and you have to have above freezing the entire year. this 'limits' your activity. i thought of those just off of the top of my head. something that gets to me that might be getting to you is you are thinking too hard about what to do. think simply, and if it is too simple, then bump it up just a little bit.

A. it is created from magma. the agents of a metamorphic rock is heat and pressure. (heat from intrusion of magma or burial)