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Florida
Geography



- a state in the South-East


- capital: Tallahassee

- borders: in the North: Alabama and Georgia


- in the East: the Atlantic


- in the West: Golf of Mexico

- the peninsula Florida has an area of 170 313 km²

- highest spot is 105 m over sea level at the border to Alabama


- coastline: 2173 km

- from every point in florida - only 100 km to next coast

- Florida is a part of the atlantic coastplaine

- the ground consists of limestone- and sandstonelayer

- because of wear of waves, wind and rain àFlorida is mainly flatland

- only forur big rivers - all in the northern of Florida:


- the Apalachicola, Suwannee, St. John and the Escambia

- there much rivers more but most of thembe caused by break out the earth surface - and so some rivers can be flow for a strech underground

- in the North you can find more than thousand springs, bacause of the pressure in the ground

- region round Tallahassee is flatland with pineforest

- western from it: the Marianna lowplain with one special: mussellinelayer

- around the altlanticcoast are coral reefs, bays, sand dunes, peninsulas and islands situated

- in the South are the Florida Keys, the Marquese Keys and Dry Tortugas, which are thousand little island along the coast

- in the East of te Keys is the last living coral reef

- the biggest lake is the Okeechobee, wich is called "Big Water"

- es ist der drittgrößte Süßwassersee in den USA


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- even you find swampland like the Everglades and the Big Cypress Garden


- it´s about 6000 km²

- most is entwässert to field or land for new buildings and projects




Climate



- in most regions of Florida is subtropical climate

- the southsummit and especially the little southern islands have chance humide climate

- annual average temperatre: in the North-West round Tallahessee: 20°C


- in the South-East round Fort Lauderale 25°C

- Above all in the South of Florida are hurricans

- Like in 1992: 41 people were killed and 160 000 homeless when hurrican Andrew came

- material damage amount to 20 billion Dollar












Nature/Animals



- 35 % from the whole area are covered up with forest

- in Florida you can find 314 different kind of trees

- most native are famous because her ricness of colours


- symbolflower: orangeflower


- tree of the state: Sabaspalm

- in the North: pines, tuliptrees, maple trees, Azaleen, Oleander, Hibiskus and Jasmin

- in the centre: cypresses, Florida Hickories, oak trees and Magnolien

- in the South: cocopalm, kingspalm, liveoaktrees, west-indish mahogony and especially at the coast cabbagepalm

- in the swampland and the Everglades: fern, orchid, Lianen


- animals:

- most animals are extinct, live in danger or are disappeared

- like 90 % of the birds..but still live more than 400 kinds

- àfisheagle, storcks, gooses, beachrunner, pelicans, seagulls and migratories

- also wild animals who live in danger like: blackbears, greyfoxes, panther and another kind of wildcats

- because of their skin many otters and minks were killed

- in a big number live deers, squirrels, wils boar, oppossum, hares and Waschbären

- nearly extinct: Seekuh and turtle

- alligators on crocodiles live reserve in the Everglades

- former their skin was process to textilies too

- in the waters live round 700 different kinds if fish like trout and werch

- but next to them you even can find frogs, lizards, rattlesnakes, and many other kinds of snakes




Economy and Industry



- Floridas most important row materials are lime, crude oil and phosphat à the state meet the demand for the USA with 80 %

- more woe materials: natural gas, sulpur and other chemical stuffs

- the most important deliver for products of agriculture àlemonfruits and oranges

- the industry process things for electric, automobiles and precisionintruments




Population, Education and Culture




- 13 Mio inhabitants

- average population density: 76 people / km²

- 80 % whites, 10 % blacks, 10 % Hispanics

- nearly 35000 Indians and 31000 people from Asia and Cuba

- share of persond above 60 years is 18 % - that is ecause Florida is the popular state for old people

- altogether 95 colleges and university with nearly 480 000 students

- state highschools and universities: University Florida, the Bethune-Cookman College (found 1904) in Daytona Beach, the Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and the University of Jacksonville

- a significant museum: the Museum of Natural History in Gainesville which posses archaeology discoveries

- an important collection of european and american painting you can find in the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota

 
 

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