Comprehension Check (Intro – The Land) Due: October 22nd Test on October 27th Almanac 1. Florida is also known as the ______State.
2. The capital of Florida is ______.
3-4. Florida entered the Union on March 3, ______, as the ______state in the Union.
Fun to Know: State Marine Mammal . . .Manatee State Motto . . . “In God We Trust” State Reptile . . . Alligator State Song . . .”The Swanee River” State Tree . . . Sabal Palmetto Palm State Animal . . . Florida panther State Flower . . .Orange Blossom State Saltwater Mammal . . .Porpoise State Beverage . . .Orange Juice State Bird . . .Mockingbird State Day . . .April 2
5. ______is the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in North America.
6. The ______Bridge is the longest segmental bridge in the world. It connects the Middle to the Lower Keys.
The most theme parks in one city can be found in Orlando. They are: 7. 8. 9.
10. Florida is famous for ______Pie.
History 11. The first European to reach Florida was the Spanish explorer ______.
12. Castillo de San Marcos, also known as ______, was built from 1672-1695 and guarded St. Augustine.
13-14. After the Spanish, the ______were the next to colonize Florida. Jean Ribault led French Protestants, called ______, and claimed St. John’s River.
15-17. After the Spanish and French, the ______joined the contest for territory in Florida. The ______War broke out in the mid-1700s. At the end, Florida was under ______rule.
18. The Spanish referred to the various Native American tribes in Florida as ______.
19. ______played a major role in negotiating treaties that tripped Native Americans of their lands in exchange for territory further west.
20. After the Third Seminole War, most of the surviving Seminoles moved to the ______to live in hiding.
21. In the 1880s and 1890s, Florida continued to grow, ______developed the Florida East Coast Railway and a string of resort hotels, bringing tourists all the way down the East Coast to Miami and Key West.
22. Hurricane ______in 1992 crippled much of southern Florida, causing over $20 billion in damages.
23. Florida gained the national spotlight in the ______presidential election, when the state’s final vote tally was disputed. The outcome of the election was delayed a month while votes were recounted.
The People
24. Almost ______% of Florida’s residents are over the age of 65.
25. ______is an island only 90 miles away from Florida.
26. The city of ______has become the primary US trade and transportation link to Latin American and the Caribbean.
The Land
27. Florida has thirty thousand lakes. The largest is Lake ______, which covers 680 square miles.
28-29. Florida has seventeen large springs, and many small ones. The largest is ______(near Ocala); the deepest is ______(near Tallahassee).
30. Florida’s largest river is the ______.
31-32. Hurricane season lasts from ______to ______.
33. The ______is a vast area of swampy grasslands fed by the Kissimmee River and Lake Okeechobee.
34. President ______established the Everglades National Park in 1947.