Colorado

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Colorado
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• Annie H.
• 9/07

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Fast Facts

• State Bird- Lark Bunting
• State Flower- Colorado Blue Columbine
• State Tree- Blue Spruce
• Capital City- Denver
• State flag-

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Region, Climate, and More

• Colorados region is what some people call the
  Rocky Mountain Region in the southwest because of
  its amazing mountain range!
• Colorados climate is usually very dry and sunny,
  but some of the time Colorado has instant
  snowstorms that bring several inches of snow.
• Colorado usually has extremely hot weather, but
  its hottest temp. is 118 F. The hottest temp.
  was held in Bennett.
• The coolest temp. that Colorado has ever had was
  -61 F and that was in Maybell, Colorado.
• Colorados neighboring states are Utah, Arizona,
  Wyoming, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, and
  Nebraska.

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Major Cities in Colorado
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• 1- Denver- Denver has a nickname called The
  Mile High City because of its elevation.
  Population- 554,636.
• 2- Colorado Springs- Colorado is the second
  largest city in Colorado. Population-360,890.
• 3- Aurora-Population- 276,393 Aurora was founded
  during a silver boom in the 1890s.
• 4- Lakewood- Population- 144,126. Lakewood was
  incorporated in 1969. It has a very large variety
  of different high-technology industries.
• 5- Fort Collins- Population- 118, 652. Fort
  Collins was founded in 1864, and even today it
  continues to grow.
• 6- Arvada- Population- 89,235. Arvada as very
  little manufacturing.

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Landforms

• The Colorado River, the Royal Gorge (1000 ft.
  deep!), and the amazing Rocky Mountains too which
  is why they call Colorado the Rocky Mountain
  region.

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Tourist Attractions

• 1 Museum of Western Art
• 2 US Air Force Academy
• 3 Pikes Peak
• 4 Garden of the Gods
• 5 Bents Old Fort
• 6 Buffalo Bills Grave

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History

• These are some important dates
• 1605- Spanish explorers traveled to the
  southwest.
• 1858- The Colorado gold rush began and many
  settlers came.
• 1876- Colorado became the 38th state of the
  United States of America!
• 1899- The first sugar refinery opened in
  Colorado!

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Why?

• Why did I pick the colors for the slides that I
  did?
• I picked pink and yellow for most of my slides
  because my state is freezing in the winter and
  burning hot in the summer. But for this slide I
  wanted it to stand out so that is why I chose
  blue, black, purple, pink, and yellow for all of
  my slides.

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Work Cited

• World Book Encyclopedia
• Grolier online
• School Books from Library