Arizona
By:Natalie Smith
Portable 3
Mrs. Wangen
Arizona Facts
 The Grand Canyon State
 48th State
 Population is 6,482,505
 State Capital is Phoenix
 The State’s official neckwear is a bola tie
 There is a fountain in Fountain Hills that is believed to be
the tallest in the world
 Arizona is one of the four corner states
The Arizona Landscape
 The Grand Canyon
 Carved by the Colorado River
 It is about 277 miles long and up to 18 miles wide.
 Home to approximately 70 species of mammals, 250 species
of birds, 25 types of reptiles and five species of amphibians.
 Painted desert
 A big area of land where erosion has caused layers of
sediment that looks like rainbows
 Petrified Forest National Park
 One of the biggest areas of petrified wood in the world
Arizona’s Climate
 Arizona is dry and has little rainfall
 Temperatures vary a lot due to Arizona’s size and
differences in elevation
 One third of Arizona is a plateau which has higher
altitudes than the lower desert, and is much cooler
climate
 80% sunshine for the state
 86% sunshine for Phoenix
 Gets 12 inches of rainfall a year
Arizona’s Resources
 Renewable resources
 Crops: hay , cotton, melon , lettuce
 Livestock: 1,000,000 cattle for making beef and milk
 165,000 hogs for pork
 Nonrenewable resources
 Minerals: copper and garnet
 Commodities: oil and gas , carbon dioxide , helium , and
geothermal resources
 Flow Resources
 Sunlight
 Watersheds
 Water
Resources Continued
 Capital Resources
 Mining equipment to support the mining industry
 Copper ore crusher
 Farming equipment
 Tractors, combine harvester
 Human Resources
 The workforce is approx.
 Top 5 industries
 Real estate, manufacturing, government, finance and
insurance, and professional and technical services
What is Arizona Known
for?
 Specialization
 Manufacturing
 Manufactures lots of products including food and
computer chips
 Mining
 In 2007 over 60% of all U.S. copper was mined in AZ
 Tourism
 More than 37,000,000 tourists visit AZ a year
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