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Florida - 6.Version - Referat
Table of contents
1. general things
2. Inhabitants
3. the name
4. history
5. wheater and farming
6. holiday in Florida
7. amusement parks
8. hurricanes
9. The Everglades
10. Big cities
1. general things
Florida is in the southeast corner of the USA.The neighbour states are Alabama in the north and Georgia in the north-west. In the east is the Atlantic Ocean and in the west there is the Gulf of Mexico. Florida is a peninsula(water surround the state from 3 of 4 possible sites). The inhabitans from Florida are called Floridians.
2.Inhabitants
In Florida lives over 16 million people. Florida is just half so big as Germany.About 80%from all inhabitants are white people, 10% are black and 9% are Hispanics. Hispanics are the people who come from the middle of America to Florida, e.g. from Mexico or Latin America.
3. the name
The first european who came to Florida was Juan Ponce de Leon from Spain. Probably, he gaves Florida its name but it´s not sure. The name Florida means Flowers.Today, Floridas nickname is Sunshine State but earlier, Florida was called the ´´southernmost State´´ but since Hawai joined to the USA, Florida chainged its nickname into Sunshine State because Florida is very sunny and has many beautiful beaches. An other reason that Florida becomes the nickname ´´Sunshine State´´ is its temperature. In summer,its very hot and the sun often shines long.
4.history
You can´t say for sure when the first people came to Florida. Probably the first persons arrived after the end of the Ice age in America from Asia about 10 000 years ago.
They were hunters, fishermen and collectors and mainly settled on the coast. The most interrested tracks those natives left are the ´´ mounds´´. The mounds are little mountains which were founded because of different reasons.
Just a few of the natives surived after the europeans settlers fell into their country in the 16th century. They died in fights or by diseases which the White men brought into their region.
5. wheater and farming
Florida hasn´t the for seasons. Florida´s sunny climate is an attention,too.
Because of the warm Climate, it is possible to plant vegetable all over the year. So, you can buy vegetable also in the winter season. Florida sells those vegetables to the noth fot high prices. They also plants fruit e.g. grapefruit or citrons. This plants love the warm Climate und the sun.
6. holiday in Florida
During the summer, it´s graet to surf up of the waves and to enjoy the beaches. In Florida, there grows lot´s of palm trees. Florida has also famous national parks or famous fun parks like the Walt Disney Wold.
So many tourist comes to see this attractions.They also come to Florida because Florida has really beautiful beaches and the ´´Miami Beach´´ is very attractive.
The tourism is a big field of enomy in Florida. Over 40 millions of touristsbring billions of dollars to the state Florida each year.Half of all working people are employed in service allready.
7.amusement parks
Walt Disney World
Nearly Orlando xou can find the Disney world. Every year over 50 millions oy Americans and tourists visited this amusement park. Its one of the most famous parks over the world. By now, it´s the biggest park wirt over 12.000 hectar.
Magic Kingdom
It´s the most popular park of the amusement parks.About 50 000 people visit it every day. The record was 92 000 visitors.
EPCOT Center
EPCOT is the abbrevation of:
´´ Experimental prototype community ot tomorrow´´
It should show a city of the future and in comparison. It´s a place for learning about technology and progress.
Disney- MGM Studios
In teamwork with MGM Disney opened this theme park. There you can look behind the scenes of movie. It`s a combination of fun park and real film studios. Tarzan, Indiana Jones, Alien or Casablanca become here their live. In “The Making of ...” stunts and tricks of movie production are shown.
Disney´s Animal Kingdom
The youngest Disney Theme Park celebrated its five-years-birthday in 2003. It’s a mixture between zoo and fun park.
Universal Studios
The movie park “Universal Studios” has competed with Disney-MGM Studios. There you can see Jaws, King Kong or Jurassic Park. The main attractions are further “Earthquake”, the “Wild Wild West Stunt Show” and the “Men in Black – Alien Attack”-Ride.
Sea World Adventure Park
Besides the Universal Studios Sea World is the biggest competitor to Disney World in Florida.It started in the 70ies with a few aquariums, sea animals in pools, the popular killer whales and dolphins.
Cape Canaveral / The Kennedy Space Center
The first people started off to the moon from the “Kennedy Space Center”. It is a real must for Florida travelers to go there and also interesting for persons who usually don’t care for techniques and sciences.
In the open-air exhibition, called “Rocket Garden” you can see different rocket models as for example: Space Shuttle Explorer, the German V2 and the giant Saturn V.
You can do a bus tour over a part of the real NASA area. There you can see how rockets are built, where they launch and where the countdown runs.
8. hurricanesThe hurricane saison in Florida is beetween June and november. In this time, the people in Florida are scared by several hurricanes. Those storms destroyed all things in their way.
9. The Everglades
The Everglades is a national park about 70 kilometres southwest of Miami. It cover 5700 km² of Florida. It´s a giant swamp land, a green water country with saw grass and a few small hills. The water comes from Lake Okeechobe which is located 100 km away.It´s not a spectual area like other ones in America but it´s special anyway.For visitors it´s special to listen to the birds or to watch the animals( alligators or crocodiles) and plants. You can also visit the alligator farms and see how the alligators grow up.
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