Florida

Name this Everglades animal

• West Indian shark

• West Indian manatee

• West Indian mermaid

• West Indian seal

Name this Everglades animal

• Eastern indigo snake

• Burmese python

• Rattlesnake

• King cobra

The Florida Everglades is also known as...

• "Lake of Okeechobee"

• "River of Grass"

• "Swamp Monster"

• "Alligator Alley"

Who helped convince people that the Everglades is "a special place worth preserving" and not just a "worthless swamp?"

• Marjory Stoneman Douglas

• Bill Gates

• Martin Luther King, Jr

• Alexander Hamilton

The Floridan ____________ is found beneath all of Florida and portions of Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina, and extends into the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean

• aquifer

• coastline

• sinkhole

• border

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When the land surface above collapses or sinks into the cavities or when surface material is carried downward into the voids; drought, along with resulting high groundwater withdrawals, can make conditions favorable for this to form

• deltas

• mountains

• caves

• sinkholes

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What most likely formed this lake?

• glaciers

• man-made

• volcanoes

• sinkhole

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Which landforms are not typically found in Florida?

• coastlines and dunes

• lakes and rivers

• glaciers and mountains

• caves and aquifers

Plants that thrive all year in Florida do not do as well in the fall or winter when they grow farther to the north. What characteristic of Florida allows these plants to live and grow all year long?

• Florida’s climate is warm and humid.

• Florida is close to the ocean.

• Florida has only a few mountains.

• Florida has many flying insects.

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Trees in southern Florida do not go through the same kinds of seasonal changes as trees in the northern parts of the country, for which of the following reasons?

• In southern Florida, temperatures are warmer.

• The trees in southern Florida have thicker trunks.

• The trees in southern Florida grow faster.

• In southern Florida, there is more rain in the summer.

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