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Warm-Up Mon, Aug 17Draw the Arizona flag in the output section of
your interactive notebook.
Try to figure out what each symbol/color on the flag means and write your thoughts.
• 13 Sun Rays: Original 13 colonies• Red and Yellow: colors of Spain and our sunsets• Copper star in the middle: copper mining industry• Blue field: Colorado River
Arizona really was the Wild West.
There were established laws in the territory, and settlers within local counties wanted to have well-run towns. However, often justice (or vengeance) was taken at the hands of the common people.
Facts• First Capital of
Arizona: Prescott
• Second Capital of Arizona: Tucson
• Current Capital of Arizona: Phoenix .
..Prescott
Phoenix
Tucson
Capital: the most important city or town in a state or nation; usually the seat of government
1899 While the
Capital Building
was being built.
Arizona State Library, Archives
and Public Records. History
and Archives Division.
2014 AZ Population: 6,731,484 people
Demographics as of 2013• Hispanic or Latino
30.3%• Black 4.6%• White persons not
Hispanic, 56.7%• Indian or Alaskan
5.3%• Asian 3.2%
Facts (Continued)• Governor of Arizona:
Doug Ducey
• Senators: Both are RepublicanJohn Jeff McCain Flake
• We lead the nation in copper production• The amount of copper on the roof of the
Capitol building is equivalent to 4,800,000 pennies.
• Two things made our population boom: trains & air conditioning.
• 6th largest state. All New England, plus the state of Pennsylvania would fit inside AZ.
Interesting facts about AZ
• Solar telescope located at Kitt Peak• Percentage of its land designated as
Indian lands AND Native American Population.
• Data center in Chandler. • To-scale collection of miniature
airplane models in Prescott. • Kachina doll in Carefree.• Solar Farm
We have the world’s largest:
Solar Panel Plant
It will be able to power 70,000 households while avoiding more than 400,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions,
Soon we will have the world’s largest…
Facts (Continued)
• One of the 4 corner States…(can you name them?)
• Arizona • Colorado• Utah• New Mexico
• Only place in the U.S. where 4 states all meet at one spot.
Temperature Records
Highest temperature 128 degrees
June, 1944
Lowest temperature -40 degrees
Jan, 1944
(2000–2015 Sandbox Networks, Inc., publishing as Infoplease)
Arizona’s Size• 113,642 square miles in
area
• 400 miles north to south• 350 miles east to west
• 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
Counties• There are 15
counties in Arizona.
• Most of you live in Maricopa county. Next closest county to the school is Pinal county.
county: a subdivision of a state
We are the only state with naturally growing SAGUARO CACTUS
If you cut down a Saguaro cactus in Arizona, you could face up to a year in prison!
Other FactsState Tree =
State Neckwear
State Bird =
State Flower =
Palo Verde
Cactus Wren
Saguaro Blossom
Bolo Tie