1. Florida Florida is a fun place to be. It is hot and humid. There are alligators and mockingbirds and a bunch of other animals there.

2. Brief Facts State Capital: Tallahassee State Motto: In God We Trust State Flag Was Adopted In 1899 State Seal Was Adopted In 1985 And It Depicts A Seminole Indian Women State Flower: Orange Blossom State Bird: Mockingbird

3. Indian Tribes Seminole Indians Apalachee Indians Calusa Indians Tequesta Indians

4. Seminole Indians Moved Into Florida In The 1700s Used To Live In Alabama And Georgia Seminole Means Runaways They Mostly Eat Fish Make A Living By Hunting Bear And Deer They Raised Cattle Slaves That Escaped Were Welcome Join Their Tribe

5. Settlement Juan Ponce De Leon

6. Reached Florida In 1513 He Named It La Florida In Honor Of Pascua Florid Which Is Spanish For Easter

7. Geography Florida Is In The Southeast Region The States Georgia And Alabama Are Florida’s Neighbors Florida Is Coastal Atlantic Ocean And Gulf Of Mexico Are Florida’s Major Oceans

8. Mountains, Canyons, Hills, Swamps, Deserts, And Plains The East Gulf Coastal Plain The Atlantic Coastal Plain Big Cypress Swamp St. Johns River St. Marys River Lake Okeechobee The Evergreen National Park

9. Major Cities Tampa Tallahassee Sarasota Saint Petersburg Saint Augustine Pensacola

10. Tallahassee Florida’s State Capital Tallahassee Is Northwestern Part Of The State Near The Border Of Georgia The Name Tallahassee Comes From An Indian Word Meaning “Old Town”

11. Sarasota The Center Of Florida’s Cultural Coast It Lays On Bay Of West Coast

12. Pensacola The Largest Deep-Water Seaport Pensacola Lies On The Pensacola Bay In Northwestern Florida

13. Climate Warm And Humid There Are Long Summers And Short Winters There Is Hardly Ever Snow January Is The Coldest Month August And July Are The Hottest Months -2 Degrees Fahrenheit Is The Coldest Recorded Temperature And 109 Degrees Fahrenheit Is The Hottest Recorded Temperature In Florida

14. Trees Sabal Palmetto Palm Tree Ashes

15. Flowers Orchids Irises Orange Blossom

16. Sabal Palmetto Can Also Be Called Cabbage Palm Can Grow 20 To 90 Feet Tall It Has Edible Leaf Buds

17. Orange Blossom They Are White They Grow Oranges

18. Iris Iris Means Rainbow It Is Colorful And Has Red And Yellow

19. Orchid Extremely Large Means A Plant That Lives For At Least 3 Years

20. Animals Alligators Gray Foxes Black Bears Mocking Bird

21. Alligators It’s Body Is Like A Giant Lizard It’s Jaws Are Set With Many Teeth

22. Gray Fox It’s Body Is Like A Dog It Is Very Good At Hunting

23. Black Bear It Has Shaggy Thick Fur It Is Very Large And Powerful

24. Mocking Bird They Build Nests In Low Trees And Bushes They Can Grow To Be 9 To 11 Inches The Mocking Bird Is Florida’s State Bird