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Thu, Aug 20
"In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder
which is …absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of
the world. I want to ask you to keep this great wonder of
nature as it now is. I hope you will not have a building of
any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or anything else...
Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it.“
– Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president
Create ONE SENTENCE summarizing what Roosevelt was
saying here.
In your sentence include WHO said it, what his ROLE IN
SOCIETY was, and what HE BELIEVED.
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her students can accomplish anything they want to if they
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Things You Probably Didn′t Know About Arizona
1. If you cut down an endangered cactus like this Saguaro in Arizona, you could face up to a year in prison.
2. It can take up to 100 years for a Saguaro cactus to grow an arm in areas of low precipitation.
3. There are 685 recorded deaths to date that have occurred at the Grand Canyon from both accidents and health-related issues.
4. Of the 55 people who have accidentally fallen to their death from the rim of the Canyon, 39 of them were male. Eight of those men fell while hopping from one rock to another to pose for that perfect
profile picture.
Source: Flickr user John Weiss
5. Billy the Kid killed his first victim named Frank “Windy” Cahill in Bonita.
6. If you stood four 1,300-foot tall skyscrapers on top of each other, they still would not reach the rim of the Grand Canyon.
7. The world’s largest solar telescope is located at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Sells.
Source: National Optical Astronomy Observatory
8. The legendary 1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in the Arizona Territory town of Tombstone is considered the most famous shootout in the American Old West, and lasted only 30 seconds.
9. There is more than 1 billion years’ worth of rock exposed at the Grand Canyon.
Source: Flickr user Steve Dunleavy
10. Arizona is large enough to fit all of New England plus the state of Pennsylvania inside of it.
11. Women in Arizona were granted the right to vote eight years before national suffrage.
12. There aren’t any dinosaur fossils at the Grand Canyon because the rocks are way older than the dinosaurs. The only fossils you’ll find are things like corals, sponges and trilobites.
Source: Flickr user Grand Canyon NPS
13. Arizona has the largest percentage of land designated as Indian lands, and 21 federally recognized American Indian tribes.
14. Colossal Cave is one of the biggest dry caverns in the world, with stalactites with names like Bonecrusher and Fang.
15. One Native American tribe called the Havasupai Indians actually live inside the Grand Canyon in a village located near Havasu Creek.
Source: Wikipedia author Grand Canyon
16. Next time you enjoy a refreshing margarita, thank Arizona. The country's first barrel of tequila came out of Nogales in 1936.
17. Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh with an astrograph telescope at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff on February 18, 1930. Sorry about the “not a planet anymore” thing, bro.
18. Arizona was good to music in the ‘90s: The Meat Puppets, Jimmy Eats World & The Gin Blossoms among others were all from Arizona.
Source: Flickr user NRK P3
19. It’s illegal for donkeys to sleep in bathtubs. Take of that what you will.
20. You can find roadrunners running up to 17mph from their enemies in Arizona. Dynamite-wielding coyotes remain harder to spot.
21. The best preserved meteor crater in the world is in Winslow, Arizona.
Source: Meteor Crater Enterprises Facebook
22. Jerome Grand Hotel, once a hospital for the town's miners, is believed to be one of the most haunted places in Arizona.
23. Arizona has 13 species of rattlesnakes, more than any other state.
24. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright began building his desert studio Taliesin West in 1937, and used it as his winter home.
Source: Wikipedia author Andrew Horne
25. Although Arizona is the sixth largest state in area, only about 17 percent of it is privately owned. The rest goes to public forest and park lands, state trust lands, and Native American reservations.
26. The comic strip “The Family Circus” was created by Paradise Valley native Bil Keane, and is sometimes set in Scottsdale.
27. Every American president since Herbert Hoover has stayed at the Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa in Phoenix, except for President Obama.
Source: Arizona Biltmore, A Waldorf Astoria Resort Facebook
28. Mine Inspector is an elected government position in Arizona.
29. The Apache Trout Fish is only found in Arizona.
30. The roof of the Capitol building of Arizona has a copper roof equivalent to 4.8 million pennies.
Source: Flickr user neepster
31. Possibly Arizona's most famous criminal, Ernesto Miranda, is the man responsible for mandated Miranda laws.
32. The world’s tallest Kachina doll stands in Carefree, Arizona at 39 feet tall.
33. The Arizona Cardinals are the longest running continuous franchise in the NFL, dating back to 1898.
Source: Arizona Cardinals Facebook
34. The sun shines in Phoenix and Tucson 85 percent of the year, even more than Florida and Hawaii.
35. Arizona is the only state besides Hawaii that does not observe Daylight Savings time.
36. The films “Casablanca,” “Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom,” “Tank Girl,” “Planet of the Apes,” “Natural Born Killers,” “Wayne’s World,” “Raising Arizona,” “Star Wars: A New Hope” and “Return of the
Jedi” were filmed all or in part on Arizona soil.
Source: Wayne’s World Facebook
37. Arizona has almost double the amount of wilderness area as the entire Midwest.
38. Morton Salt has been mining a salt deposit in unincorporated Glendale since the mid-1980s that is about 40 square miles wide and more than half a mile thick.
39. The world’s oldest rodeo is in Prescott—but the oldest continuous rodeo is in Payson.
Source: World’s Oldest Rodeo Facebook
40. For a few hundred bucks a night you can sleep 22 stories underground in a hotel room of sorts in the Grand Canyon Caverns in Peach Springs. Not for claustrophobics.
There are three
regions of Arizona:
Colorado Plateau,
Transition Zone and
Basin & Range
Regions.
Each of the three
regions is partly desert
and partly
mountainous. Yet,
each region offers a
wide variety of scenery.
1. The
Colorado
Plateau
arid: a
region in
which annual
rainfall is
less than 10
inches.
Dry.
in northern
Arizona is where
the highest
elevations of the
state are found. It
is a semi-arid,
mostly flat-lying
region ranging
from 5,000 – 8,000
feet.
Angled
across
middle
of
The Transition
AZ,
NW
to
SE
located
Zone
north of Globe near
Payson on the Mogollon
Rim. Eight thousand foot
peaks, ponderosa pine
forests, and deep
canyons are found in this
area of Arizona.
The Basin Low, dry. The Basin and Range
and Range zone is a particular type of
land area that is surrounded
by north-south running dry
valleys and mountain ranges.
We live here.
Because of Arizona’s
location in the desert,
we do not have enough
natural water supply to
meet our needs.
The answer for a
dependable water
supply is dams and
canals.
Dam construction was important to the
southwestern United States because it
was an inexpensive source of electricity,
dependable water supply for farmers, and
provides flood control.
Roosevelt Dam
The
Central
Arizona
Project
(CAP)
manages
our dams
& canals.
SRP Canal
People travel
from all over
to see and
study our
canals
Dams and canal systems are
important to the southwest
because it is an inexpensive
source of electricity, dependable
water supply for farmers, and
provides flood control.
The 5 C’s of Arizona
and Environment
Interactions
Adapted from:
http://www.azsos.gov/public_services/kids/five_Cs.htm
Copper
• People started coming
to AZ in the 1700 and
1900’s for copper.
• By the mid 1860’s one
in every four people
were miners
• Copper is used mostly
to make coins and wire
Cattle
• In 1918 Arizona had as
many as 1.75 million
head of cattle providing
beef to the nation.
• Today there is about
half that many
Cotton
• The growing of cotton became a
"cash crop" for Arizona farmers in
the 1910s.
• Cotton and parts of the plant is
used in clothing, for fertilizer, fuel,
packing, in paper and cardboard
and even in some plastics.
• Cottonseed oil can be used in
cooking and used to make
margarine and shortening.
• Today, Arizona remains a leading
cotton state along with the other
leading producers including Texas,
California, Mississippi and Louisiana
Today, Arizona has 259,000 acres of
cotton, which makes it
part of the Cotton Belt.
Citrus
• Citrus refers to
agriculture and farming
in the state. Grapefruit,
lemons, limes and
oranges are among the
most popular citrus
grown.
• Arizona is one of only
four citrus-producing
states in the nation.
(Texas, Florida, and
southern California are
the others.)
• Climate an important role
in the state's economy.
• Climate refers to the
weather in the state. Our
climate is mild, meaning
we don’t have a lot of
change in our weather
• Because it is sunny most
of the time people like to
visit the state.
• People spend money on
hotels and food and sightseeing. This affects the
economy positively.
Climate today is referred
to as the state's tourism
industry.
Climate
6th C????
Computers
An unofficial
6th "C" has been
added, as the hightech
"Computer" industry
has swept into the
desert. Companies
like Honeywell, Intel
and Motorola, as well
as hundreds of small
high-tech companies
that have left
California to come to
the much less
expensive Phoenix
area, are now
creating the largest
sector of jobs for the
metro Phoenix area.