Physical Features
What is the name of the large wetland area in southern Florida?
What is the Everglades?
Which city on the western coast of Florida has the largest population?
What is Tampa?
Why is Florida called the Sunshine State?
What is because it has warm, sunny weather most of the year?
Florida’s warm climate and beaches contribute to which major industry?
What is tourism?
Florida is part of the United States’ southeastern region and is mostly located on a large
What is Peninsula?
What is Florida's largest lake?
What is Lake Okeechobee?
Most of Florida's urban areas are located near what type of geographical feature?
What is the coast?
What kind of severe storm often impacts Florida and occurs from June to November?
What is hurricane?
What mineral, used in fertilizers, is heavily mined in Florida
What is phosphate?
How many lakes are estimated to be in Florida
What is more than 7,800
Florida is boarded by which two major bodies of water?
What is the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico?
This area, named for its high population density, includes Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Pompano Beach. What is it called?
What is the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach metropolitan area
Which hurricane caused great damage to southern Florida in 1992?
What is hurricane Andrew
Which region in central Florida is known for phosphate mining
What is Bone Valley?
What does “population density” mean
What is measures how many people live per unit of area (such as per square mile)
What is the highest point in Florida, and how high is it?
What is Britton Hill at 345 feet?
What two states share a border with Florida?
What is Alabama and Georgia?
How does Florida's climate benefit orange framers?
What is allows crops to grow year-round due to warm temperatures ?
Tampa’s port is one of the largest in the country, mainly due to the shipping of what material
What is phosphate
Bodies of water, landforms, and climate are all part of
What is Florida's physical geography?
This chain of islands near the tip of Florida peninsula stretches into the Gulf of Mexico. What is it called?
What is the Florida Keys?
Name the famous street in Little Havana, Miami, known for its vibrant Cuban culture.
What is Calle Ocho( Eight Street)?
Name the deadliest hurricane in Florida’s history that occurred in 1928.
What is the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane?
Which individual helped start Miami’s tourism industry by building a railroad and hotel there in the late 1800s?
Who is Henry Flager?
Which industry might threaten Florida’s water bodies due to pollution?
What is phosphate mining