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100

What is the name of the large wetland area in southern Florida?

What is the Everglades?

100

Which city on the western coast of Florida has the largest population?

What is Tampa? 

100

Why is Florida called the Sunshine State?

What is because it has warm, sunny weather most of the year?

100

Florida’s warm climate and beaches contribute to which major industry?

What is tourism?

100

Florida is part of the United States’ southeastern region and is mostly located on a large

What is Peninsula?

200

What is Florida's largest lake?

What is Lake Okeechobee?

200

Most of Florida's urban areas are located near what type of geographical feature?

What is the coast?

200

What kind of severe storm often impacts Florida and occurs from June to November?

What is hurricane?

200

What mineral, used in fertilizers, is heavily mined in Florida

What is phosphate?

200

How many lakes are estimated to be in Florida

What is more than 7,800

300

Florida is boarded by which two major bodies of water?

What is the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico?

300

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

300

Which hurricane caused great damage to southern Florida in 1992?

What is hurricane Andrew

300

Which region in central Florida is known for phosphate mining

What is Bone Valley?

300

What does “population density” mean

What is measures how many people live per unit of area (such as per square mile)

400

What is the highest point in Florida, and how high is it?

What is Britton Hill at 345 feet?

400

What two states share a border with Florida?

What is Alabama and Georgia?

400

How does Florida's climate benefit orange framers?

What is allows crops to grow year-round due to warm temperatures ?

400

Tampa’s port is one of the largest in the country, mainly due to the shipping of what material

What is phosphate

400

Bodies of water, landforms, and climate are all part of 

What is Florida's physical geography? 

500

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?

500

Name the famous street in Little Havana, Miami, known for its vibrant Cuban culture.

What is Calle Ocho( Eight Street)?

500

Name the deadliest hurricane in Florida’s history that occurred in 1928.

What is the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane? 

500

Which individual helped start Miami’s tourism industry by building a railroad and hotel there in the late 1800s?

Who is Henry Flager?

500

Which industry might threaten Florida’s water bodies due to pollution?

What is phosphate mining