Warm-Up Thu, Aug 20 "In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is …absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask.

Warm-Up Thu, Aug 20"In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which

is …absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask you to keep this great wonder of nature as it now is. I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or anything else... Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it.“ – Theodore Roosevelt,

26th president

Create ONE SENTENCE summarizing what Roosevelt was saying here.

In your sentence include WHO said it, what his ROLE IN SOCIETY was, and what HE BELIEVED.

(Example: Mrs. Harper, Social Studies teacher believes her students can accomplish anything they want to if they

believe they can)

• Things You Probably Didn t Know About Arizona′• 1. If you cut down an endangered cactus like this Saguaro in Arizona, you could face up to a year in prison.• 2. It can take up to 100 years for a Saguaro cactus to grow an arm in areas of low precipitation.• 3. There are 685 recorded deaths to date that have occurred at the Grand Canyon from both accidents and health-related issues.• 4. Of the 55 people who have accidentally fallen to their death from the rim of the Canyon, 39 of them were male. Eight of those men fell while hopping from one rock to another to pose for that perfect profile picture.• Source: Flickr user John Weiss• 5. Billy the Kid killed his first victim named Frank “Windy” Cahill in Bonita.• 6. If you stood four 1,300-foot tall skyscrapers on top of each other, they still would not reach the rim of the Grand Canyon.• 7. The world’s largest solar telescope is located at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Sells.• Source: National Optical Astronomy Observatory• 8. The legendary 1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in the Arizona Territory town of Tombstone is considered the most famous shootout in the American Old West, and lasted only 30 seconds.• 9. There is more than 1 billion years’ worth of rock exposed at the Grand Canyon.• Source: Flickr user Steve Dunleavy• 10. Arizona is large enough to fit all of New England plus the state of Pennsylvania inside of it.• 11. Women in Arizona were granted the right to vote eight years before national suffrage.• 12. There aren’t any dinosaur fossils at the Grand Canyon because the rocks are way older than the dinosaurs. The only fossils you’ll find are things like corals, sponges and trilobites.• Source: Flickr user Grand Canyon NPS• 13. Arizona has the largest percentage of land designated as Indian lands, and 21 federally recognized American Indian tribes.• 14. Colossal Cave is one of the biggest dry caverns in the world, with stalactites with names like Bonecrusher and Fang.• 15. One Native American tribe called the Havasupai Indians actually live inside the Grand Canyon in a village located near Havasu Creek.• Source: Wikipedia author Grand Canyon• 16. Next time you enjoy a refreshing margarita, thank Arizona. The country's first barrel of tequila came out of Nogales in 1936.• 17. Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh with an astrograph telescope at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff on February 18, 1930. Sorry about the “not a planet anymore” thing, bro.• 18. Arizona was good to music in the ‘90s: The Meat Puppets, Jimmy Eats World & The Gin Blossoms among others were all from Arizona.• Source: Flickr user NRK P3• 19. It’s illegal for donkeys to sleep in bathtubs. Take of that what you will.• 20. You can find roadrunners running up to 17mph from their enemies in Arizona. Dynamite-wielding coyotes remain harder to spot.• 21. The best preserved meteor crater in the world is in Winslow, Arizona.• Source: Meteor Crater Enterprises Facebook• 22. Jerome Grand Hotel, once a hospital for the town's miners, is believed to be one of the most haunted places in Arizona.• 23. Arizona has 13 species of rattlesnakes, more than any other state.• 24. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright began building his desert studio Taliesin West in 1937, and used it as his winter home.• Source: Wikipedia author Andrew Horne• 25. Although Arizona is the sixth largest state in area, only about 17 percent of it is privately owned. The rest goes to public forest and park lands, state trust lands, and Native American reservations.• 26. The comic strip “The Family Circus” was created by Paradise Valley native Bil Keane, and is sometimes set in Scottsdale.• 27. Every American president since Herbert Hoover has stayed at the Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa in Phoenix, except for President Obama.• Source: Arizona Biltmore, A Waldorf Astoria Resort Facebook• 28. Mine Inspector is an elected government position in Arizona.• 29. The Apache Trout Fish is only found in Arizona.• 30. The roof of the Capitol building of Arizona has a copper roof equivalent to 4.8 million pennies.• Source: Flickr user neepster• 31. Possibly Arizona's most famous criminal, Ernesto Miranda, is the man responsible for mandated Miranda laws.• 32. The world’s tallest Kachina doll stands in Carefree, Arizona at 39 feet tall.• 33. The Arizona Cardinals are the longest running continuous franchise in the NFL, dating back to 1898.• Source: Arizona Cardinals Facebook• 34. The sun shines in Phoenix and Tucson 85 percent of the year, even more than Florida and Hawaii.• 35. Arizona is the only state besides Hawaii that does not observe Daylight Savings time.• 36. The films “Casablanca,” “Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom,” “Tank Girl,” “Planet of the Apes,” “Natural Born Killers,” “Wayne’s World,” “Raising Arizona,” “Star Wars: A New Hope” and “Return of the Jedi” were filmed all or in part on Arizona soil.• Source: Wayne’s World Facebook• 37. Arizona has almost double the amount of wilderness area as the entire Midwest.• 38. Morton Salt has been mining a salt deposit in unincorporated Glendale since the mid-1980s that is about 40 square miles wide and more than half a mile thick.• 39. The world’s oldest rodeo is in Prescott—but the oldest continuous rodeo is in Payson.• Source: World’s Oldest Rodeo Facebook• 40. For a few hundred bucks a night you can sleep 22 stories underground in a hotel room of sorts in the Grand Canyon Caverns in Peach Springs. Not for claustrophobics.• 41. Most historians agree that the westernmost Civil War battle took place in 1862 at Picacho Pass, 50 miles northwest of Tucson.• 42. In 1973, the bolo tie was designated as Arizona’s official state neckwear.• Source: Wikipedia author Gilesstanley• 43. About 150 people are bitten by rattlesnakes every year in Arizona.• 44. The most common rattlesnake in the Grand Canyon has an unusual pink hue, that blends in with the rocks. Not cool.• 45. The sundial in Carefree, Arizona is one of the world’s largest, measuring 90 feet across.• Source: Flickr user Viewmaker• 46. The last volcanic eruption in Arizona took place sometime around A.D. 1064, and created Sunset Crater near Flagstaff.• 47. In 1956, two planes detoured over the Grand Canyon’s airspace for a better view and ended up colliding directly over the canyon. The FAA was created in 1958 as a result.• 48. The Queen of Mystical Rock-n-Roll herself, Stevie Nicks, was born at Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix.• Source: Flickr user Eva Rinaldi Celebrity and Live Music Photographer• 49. According to the National Weather Service, the biggest snowfall ever recorded in Phoenix measured one inch—once in 1933 and again in 1937.• 50. The unexplained incident now known as “The Lights Over Phoenix” occurred on March 13, 1997 when Phoenix residents and even the governor claimed to have seen a stationary aircraft in their sky for 106 minutes described as “otherworldly.”• Source: Wikipedia author ufosnw.com

There are three regions of Arizona: Colorado Plateau, Transition Zone and Basin & Range Regions.

Each of the three regions is partly desert and partly mountainous. Yet, each region offers a wide variety of scenery.

1. The Colorad

o Plateauarid: a region in which annual rainfall is less than 10 inches. Dry.

in northern Arizona is where the highest elevations of the state are found. It is a semi-arid, mostly flat-lying region ranging from 5,000 – 8,000 feet.

The Transition

Zone

Angled across middle of AZ, NW to SE located north of Globe near Payson on the Mogollon Rim.  Eight thousand foot peaks, ponderosa pine forests, and deep canyons are found in this area of Arizona.

The Basin and

Range

Low, dry. The Basin and Range zone is a particular type of land area that is surrounded by north-south running dry valleys and mountain ranges.

We live here.

Because of Arizona’s location in the desert, we do not have enough natural water supply to meet our needs.

The answer for a dependable water supply is dams and canals.

Dam construction was important to the southwestern United States because it was an inexpensive source of electricity, dependable water supply for farmers, and provides flood control.

Roosevelt Dam

Dams and canal systems are important to the southwest because it is an inexpensive source of electricity, dependable water supply for farmers, and provides flood control.

The Central Arizona Project

(CAP) manages

our dams & canals.

SRP CanalPeople travel

from all over to

see and study our

canals

The 5 C’s of Arizonaand Environment Interactions

Adapted from: http://www.azsos.gov/public_services/kids/five_Cs.htm

Copper• People started coming

to AZ in the 1700 and 1900’s for copper.

• By the mid 1860’s one in every four people were miners

• Copper is used mostly to make coins and wire

Cattle• In 1918 Arizona had as

many as 1.75 million head of cattle providing beef to the nation.

• Today there is about half that many

Cotton• The growing of cotton became a

"cash crop" for Arizona farmers in the 1910s.

• Cotton and parts of the plant is used in clothing, for fertilizer, fuel, packing, in paper and cardboard and even in some plastics.

• Cottonseed oil can be used in cooking and used to make margarine and shortening.

• Today, Arizona remains a leading cotton state along with the other leading producers including Texas, California, Mississippi and Louisiana

Today, Arizona has 259,000 acres of cotton, which makes it part of the Cotton Belt.

Citrus• Citrus refers to agriculture and farming in the state. Grapefruit, lemons, limes and oranges are among the most popular citrus grown.

• Arizona is one of only four citrus-producing states in the nation. (Texas, Florida, and southern California are the others.)

Climate• Climate an important role in

the state's economy.• Climate refers to the

weather in the state. Our climate is mild, meaning we don’t have a lot of change in our weather

• Because it is sunny most of the time people like to visit the state.

• People spend money on hotels and food and sight-seeing. This affects the economy positively. Climate today is referred to as the state's tourism industry.

6th C????

ComputersAn unofficial 6th "C" has been added, as the high-tech "Computer" industry has swept into the desert. Companies like Honeywell, Intel and Motorola, as well as hundreds of small high-tech companies that have left California to come to the much less expensive Phoenix area, are now creating the largest sector of jobs for the metro Phoenix area.