Louisiana Questions-Wheel of Fortune
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- The symbol that flies over government building is the state ________.
- flag
- The symbol that makes documents official if the state _______.
- seal
- The state bird that flies in the skies is the Eastern brown __________.
- pelican
- The state tree with roots that run deep is the _______.
- bald cypress
- The state fish is the ______.
- white perch
- The state flower that brings beauty is the ________.
- magnolia
- The official ______ is the state of Louisiana.
- name
- Louisiana became an official member of the United States on _________.
- April 30, 1812
- Louisiana was named in honor of King _______ of France.
- Louis XIV
- Louisiana joined the nation in this order: ______.
- 18th
- In order to join the nation, states have to ratify this: ________.
- constitution
- Louisiana's official _______ is the Pelican State.
- nickname
- The city where official business takes place in a state is called the _________.
- capital
- The building where a state's official business takes place is called the _________.
- capitol
- The state capital of Louisiana is ___________.
- Baton Rouge
- Baton Rouge became the state capital in _______.
- 1849
- The _________ caused Louisiana's capital to move from Baton Rouge to Opelousas and Shreveport before returning to Baton Rouge.
- Cival War
- At 34 stories, the Louisiana state capitol is one of the _______ public buildings in the country.
- tallest
- Louisiana has ______ branches of government.
- three
- The legislative branch is composed of the ______ and the House of Representatives.
- Senate
- The branch of government responsible for creating laws is the _______.
- legislative
- The head of the executive branch is the _________.
- governor
- The state Supreme Court is the highest level of the ______.
- judicial
- The executive branch is responsible for ________ laws.
- enforcing
- Louisiana's main border to the south is _________.
- Gulf of Mexico
- The state that lies to Louisiana's _______ is Mississippi.
- east
- The river forms part of Louisiana eastern border:
- Mississippi
- Louisiana's neighbor to the north is ________.
- Arkansas
- The state of Texas is on Louisiana's ____ border.
- western
- The Sabine River forms most of Louisiana's border with _______.
- Texas
- Driskill Mountain is the ______ spot in Louisiana.
- highest
- Driskill Mountain is 535 ____ (163 _____) high.
- feet, meters
- Near New Orleans is Louisiana's _______ point. It's 5 feet (1.5 meters) below sea level!
- lowest
- Louisiana's highest point is not that high compared to some states, but it is higher than any point in Delaware or _________.
- Florida
- All of Louisiana lies with the region called the Gulf ______ Plain.
- Coastal
- Topography is detailed _____ of land formations in an area.
- mapping
- Louisiana has 64 ______.
- parishes
- The city in each parish where the major government offices, such as the courthouse, are located is called the parish ________.
- seat
- The _______of Louisiana is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
- capital
- Louisiana changed its local government divisions from counties to parishes in 1845 as a holdover to the state's days as a ________ colony.
- Spanish
- Plaquemines is the ________ in Louisiana.
- easternmost
- Calcasieu Lake divides _______ Parish.
- Cameron
- Natural resources are things that exist or are formed by _________.
- nature
- _________ make up about 15 million acres of Louisiana.
- Forests
- States often use their natural resources in _______.
- manufacturing
- Louisiana's deep-water ________ in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and South Louisiana are an important natural resource.
- ports
- Petroleum, natural gas, and crude oil are important _______ mined in Louisiana.
- fuels
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Louisiana leads the nation in the production of _______.
"Where's the pepper?" - salt
- The _________ in Louisiana is usually mild and humid. Summers can be "muggy" and winters are generally cool.
- climate
- Louisiana's location near the ________ affects its weather greatly.
- coast
- July is the ________ month in Louisiana, with thunderstorms frequently occurring.
- wettest
- The _______ temperature ever recorded in Louisiana was 114 degrees F (46 degrees C) at Plain Dealing in 1936.
- hottest
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The _______ temperature ever recorded in Louisiana was
-16 degrees F (-27 degrees C) at Minden in 1899. - coldest
- Hurricane and _______ storms sometimes strike Louisiana's coast, usually between July and September.
- tropical
- A _________ is a body of water stored for public use.
- reservoir
- The _____ river in the state is the Mississippi River.
- longest
- Lake Pontchartrain is Louisiana's largest _____ lake.
- natural
- Lake Pontchartrain is a brackish lake, which means its water is partly ________.
- saltwater
- To prevent flooding, many of Louisiana's rivers have _______, which are walls to help control raging water.
- levees
- Louisiana also has many _________, which are small, slow-moving inlets or outlests of a river, lake or sea.
- bayous
- I-12, I-55, and I-20 are major _______ highways.
- interstate
- Transportation was changed drastically when the first _________ arrived in New Orleans in 1812.
- steamboat
- Louisiana has two international _________ -one in New Orleans and one in Alexandria.
- airports
- More than 4,000 miles of ______ tracks cut acroos Louisiana.
- railroad
- The Old Spanish _______ begins in Houma and ends in Breaux Bridge.
- Trail
- Pontchartrain Causeway is the longest ______ in the world.
- bridge
- Hernando De Soto was the first _____ to see the Mississippi River. He saw it in 1541.
- European
- Louisiana was first claimed as a French _______ in 1682.
- territory
- Louisiana became a territory of the United States in 1803 as part of the Louisiana _______.
- Purchase
- Louisiana became a state in ________.
- 1812
- In 1901, _________ was discovered near Jennings.
- oil
- The World Exposition was held in _________ in 1984.
- New Orleans
- The first American came to Louisiana across a frozen _________ of land from Asia down to what is now the United States.
- bridge
- The earliest people in Louisiana were _______ hunters who set up temporary camps across the land.
- nomatic
- Native Americans used shells and beads they called ______ as a form of money.
- wampum
- European settlers moved farther into native American lands, often making them sign _____ giving up thier homelands.
- treaties
- Indians in Louisiana sometimes built large earthen hills of dirt called ________ where they buried their dead.
- mounds
- Caddo, Choctaw, Chitimacha, and Atakapa are Indian ________ who lived in Louisiana.
- tribes