Arizona Notes

Learning Goals: Learning Goals:

Identify Identify important key important key facts about facts about Arizona.Arizona.

Journal Question:Journal Question:There is no journal question There is no journal question for this first section of for this first section of Arizona Notes, however, in Arizona Notes, however, in the future, you will always the future, you will always have a journal question have a journal question and you must write down and you must write down everything that is everything that is underlined.underlined.

Arizona Facts

•Arizona got its name from the word:

•ARIZONAC which is an Indian word for: –place of the small spring.

Facts:

Facts:• First Capital of

Arizona: Prescott

• Second Capital of Arizona: Tucson

• Current Capital of Arizona: Phoenix .

..Prescott

Phoenix

Tucson

Facts (Continued)• Became a State:

February 14, 1912

• Arizona was the 48th State in the United States.

• Alaska = 49th • Hawaii = 50th

Facts (Continued)• Arizona is the 6th largest

state in size•Alaska = #1•Texas = #2

Facts (Continued)

• Nickname: The Grand Canyon State

• Population: 5,130,632 people

•20th largest population in the U.S.

•#1 is California = 34,000,000 people

Facts (Continued)• Governor of Arizona:

Jan Brewer

• Senators: Both are RepublicanJohn Jon

McCain Kyl

Facts (Continued)• One of the 4 corner

States: •Arizona •Colorado•Utah•New Mexico

• Only place in the U.S. where 4 states all meet at one spot.

Facts (Continued)• 5 C’s of Arizona:

•Cotton•Cattle•Copper•Citrus•Climate

Arizona’s Size

• 400 miles north to south• 350 miles east to west

• 113,642 square miles in area

• Humphrey’s Peak = highest point in the state = 12,633 feet

• Yuma desert = lowest point in the state

How Land is Divided

• 45% federal lands• 27% federal trust land = Indian

reservations• 13% state owned• 15% private ownership

TemperaturTemperature Recordse Records

Highest temperature 127 degrees

Lowest temperature -40 degrees

Other FactsState Tree =

Palo Verde

State Bird = Cactus Wren

State Flower = Saguaro Blossom

Facts (Continued)

Flag: The 13 stripes of red and gold on the top half of the flag represent both the 13 original colonies of the Union, and the rays of the Western setting sun. Red and gold were also the colors carried by Coronado's Spanish expedition in search of the Seven Cities of Cibola in 1540. The bottom half of the flag has the same Liberty blue as the United States flag. Since Arizona was the largest producer of copper in the nation, a copper star was placed in the flag's center. This flag was adopted in 1917.

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