Download NJ State Symbols - Cornell Notes with Answers

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Represents an example of something that is the best or greatest for its category.
Where do you see symbols around Paramus? Stop signs, street signs, ambulance
Sign, police sign, store sign symbols – Shop Rite, ToysRUs
State seal
Name: state seal
Facts: 2 women (Liberty - freedom & Ceres - agriculture), a horses head , helmet,
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motto
(Liberty
Prosperity), 1776 (date NJ entered as a state in the US), State Motto
State flag
Name: state flag
Facts: a picture of the state seal and motto, flown in front of the capital building
in the capital city of NJ – Trenton, 1896
State motto
Name: Liberty & Prosperity
Facts: stands for freedom to the people and prosperity is to have a lot/enough
(the ability to farm and make money)
State flower
Name: purple violet
Facts: small purple flower, grows in meadows around NJ, 1971, found in spring
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State bird
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Name: Eastern Goldfinch
Facts: black and yellow small bird, found throughout NJ, 1935, eat sunflower
seeds
State insect
Name: honey bee
Facts: black and yellow, helps farmers b/c it pollinates plants, 1974, Governor
Byrne, makes honey and beeswax
State tree
Name: Red Oak
Facts: red leaves in the fall, produces a lot of acorns to grow more trees and
feed the squirrels, pointy leaves, Lenape (Native Americans) ate acorns,
Governor Driscoll, 1950, hardwood tree
State animal
Name: horse
Facts: The horse was chosen many years ago b/c they were so useful to farmers.
5th grade class in Harrington Park and an 8th grader in Freehold founded it, 1977
Teacher of 5th grade was Michael McCarthy, race horses are important in NJ
Governor Byrne
Other interesting
state symbols you found?
State Dinosaur - The Hadrosaurus Foulkii
State Folk Dance - The Square Dance
State Fish- The Brook Trout
State Shell - The Knobbed Whelk
State Ship - The A.J. Meerwald
State Fruit - The Blueberry
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Hadrosaurus Foulkii
By William Faulk, discovered in 1858, digging for something, 1991
4th grade class at Haddon Township's Strawbridge Elementary School
State folk dance
Square dance
State fish
Brook trout
Only swims in fresh water,
State shell
Knobbed whelk
Found along NJ beaches and bays, 1995, commonly known as the conch shell
Put your ear to the shell to ‘hear’ the ocean, yellow gray color,
State ship
A J Meerwald
Built in 1928, collects seafood like oysters, shellfish, and brings back to sell
To NJ residents to eat,
State fruit
Blueberry
2004, grow a lot of blueberries in NJ, 4th graders at Veterans Memorial
Elementary School in Brick Township