LEARN ALL ABOUT FLORIDA! FLORIDA FACTS LEARN ALL ABOUT FLORIDA!
LOWEST AND HIGHEST POINTS THE LOWEST POINT: SEA LEVEL THE HIGHEST POINT: BRITTON HILL BODIES OF WATER: ALANTIC OCEAN, GULF OF MEXICO, AND THE STRAITS OF FLORIDA NEIGHBORING STATES: GEORGIA AND ALABAMA
STATE NICKNAME AND MOTTO STATE MOTTO - IN GOD WE TRUST STATE NICKNAME - THE SUNSHINE STATE
HISTORY OF FLORIDA DATE OF STATEHOOD- MARCH 3,1845 RATIFIED TO THE U.S.- NOVEMBER 5, 1968 STATE NAME OF ORIGIN- PASCUA FLORIDA
SYMBOLS OF FLORIDA SYMBOLS OF FLORIDA FLAG- CONSISTS OF RED SALTIRE, ST. ANDREW'S CROSS, ON A WHITE BACKGROUND, WITH THE STATE SEAL IN THE MIDDLE STATE BIRD- NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD STATE TREE- CABBAGE PALMETTO STATE FLOWER- ORANGE BLOSSOM STATE ANIMAL- FLORIDA PANTHER STATE MAMMAL- MANATEE AND DOLPHIN STATE INSECT- PRAYING MANTIS STATE BEVARAGE- OJ STATE SHELL- HORSE CONCH STATE GEM-MOONSTONE
INDIAN TRIBES THE TIMUCUA INDIAN TRIBE WAS AN AMERICAN INDIAN TRIBE WHO LIVED IN NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. THEY WERE THE LARGEST INDIAN GROUP IN THAT AREA, AND CONSISTED OF 35 CHIEFDOMS LEADING ABOUT 1,000 OTHERS.
EXPLORERS HERNANDO DE SOTO WAS A SPANISH EXPLORER WHO LED THE FIRST EUROPEAN EXPEDITION DEEP INTO THE TERRITORY OF THE MODERN DAY UNITED STATES AND THE FIRST DOCUMENTED EUROPEAN TO CROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
FAMOUS PEOPLE VICTORIA JUSTICE, JACK GRIFFO, AND PEYTON LIST WERE ALL BORN IN FLORIDA, BUT MOVED TO CALIFORNIA.
PEOPLE OFTEN VISIT DISNEY WORLD, SEA WORLD, AND UNIVERSAL. PLACES TO VISIT PEOPLE OFTEN VISIT DISNEY WORLD, SEA WORLD, AND UNIVERSAL.
SPORTS TEAMS VERY COMMON SPORTS TEAMS PEOPLE LIKE TO WATCH ARE- THE SEMINOLES, THE MIAMI DOLPHINS, AND THE MIAMI HURRICANES.
ME! THIS IS A PICTURE OF MY FAVE SINGER DEMI LOVATO! DONE BY CAYLEY,4TH GRADER, MRS. CUMMINGS CLASS.