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Love FL like you do.
It's all about that climate.
Who "dunnit"?
Boom, Clap...the sound of a war.
Vocab. SHOWDOWN!
100
Most of Florida's soil rests over this type of rock.
What is limestone?
100
Climate and geography are two reasons people love coming to this state.
What is Florida?
100
This explorer thought he had landed in Asia, but was actually in what is now known as the Bahamas.
Who was Columbus?
100
After this war only a few hundred Seminoles remained in Florida.
What is the Second Seminole War?
100
The money you get paid from your job is known as this.
What is income?
200
This feature is formed when branches of trees twist together and arch over roads, creating shade.
What is a canopy?
200
This weather event forms over water and has winds of more than 74 mph.
What is a hurricane?
200
The Florida park opened by this person in 1971 has over 17 million visitors every year.
Who was Walt Disney?
200
This military strategy uses a line of ships to keep goods from entering or leaving a place.
What is a blockade?
200
This Florida product comes from trees that are cut or grown for wood.
What is timber?
300
This Florida feature is the primary water source of the Everglades.
What is Lake Okeechobee?
300
The geography of a place begins with this.
What is its location?
300
This Spanish explorer and soldier was searching for riches when he discovered Florida.
Who was Juan Ponce de Leon?
300
This is the name given to the period of time after the war when Florida and the rest of the South had to rebuild its cities and economy.
What is reconstruction?
300
This is a narrow channel of water that connects two larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
400
Ponce de Leon named Florida "La Florida", which means this.
What is Land of Flowers?
400
Florida has warm hot summers and this type of winter weather depending on the region.
What is cool in the North and warmer in the South?
400
These two Native Americans groups used dugout canoes to find seafood.
Who are the Calusa and Tequesta?
400
Spaniards wanted to convert Native Americans to this religion.
What is Catholic?
400
These people are descendants of Florida's earliest inhabitants.
Who are the Native Americans?
500
These two minerals are mined in FL in large amounts.
What is limestone and phosphate?
500
After the Great Freeze in the winter of 1894-95, many growers moved this direction and planted groves in drained land.
Where is South?
500
This tycoon made his Florida fortune in the oil business.
Who was Henry Flagler?
500
This is a military settlement surrounded by walls.
What is a fort?
500
By 1912, the Henry Flagler railroad reached all the way to this, the most Southern point in Florida.
What is Key West?