Washington StateBy: Dalton Brittain 

and Jahir Hernandez

What You Are Going To Learn

• major iderstries and services• state nickname • climate• Travel• famous people• state flower• History• colleges

Washington

• Official state web site is http://access.wa.gov                • State Capital is Olympia • population of 6,744,496• geographic size 71,300 sq. miles

        

         

Major Iderstries and Services

• Services - seafood, dairy products, apples, cattle, wheat, potatoes, nursery stock.

• Industries - aerospace, software development, food processing, paper products, lumber and wood products, chemical products, and tourism

 

State Nickname

• the state nickname is the evergreen state• named this because of all the evergreen forests in the state

     

Climate

• Washington has to distinct climate zone                 • weather in Washington is different from east to west• the oceanic climate is in the west• semi-arid climate covers the east • a lot of rain occurs during fall months

Travel • There is many outdoor attractions throughout the state

many of which are famous world wide.     • One of which is Lake Chelan

o Located at the North Cascade Mountains, Lake Chelan has endless activities.

o From fishing, boating, to skiing and sledding during the winter, Lake Chelan has something for every one.

   

Famous People

• Curt Cobain Grunge, rock icon, form Aberdeen•  Bill Gates, software executive, from Seattle• Jimi Hendrix, guitarist, Seattle• Hank Ketcham, cartoonist, Seattle• John Knowles, author, Faumont • Mary McCarthy, author, Seattle• John McIntire, actor, Spokane • Phil Mahre, skier, Yakima • Robert Motherwell artist, Aberdeen• Jimmie Rogers, singer, Camas

State Flower

the state flower for Washington state is Rhododendron 

History

• the first person who lived there were the Native Americans• lived by hunting deer and animals• state was had a big fur trading industry in the 1800's • 1846 made a treaty with Great Britain creating the 49th

parallel as the border between Washington and Canada      

History

• Lewis and Clark are in Washington -1805• first settlement in Washington - 1811• U.S.A and Great Britain join and make settlement and

Oregon Country (includes Washington) -1818• Great Britain builds fort Vancouver - 1825• congress makes the Washington territory - 1853  

History

• railroads connect Washington to the east coast - 1883 • washington becomes the 42nd state - 1889• women get the right to vote - 1910• settle host the world fair - 1962• Mount St. Helen's erupts causing 57 deaths and tons of

causalities - 1980

State Bird

• the Washington state bird is the Willow Golden-Finch• the bird was adopted in 1951

 

Conclusion

• in conclusion there are alot of major industries• there are two major colleges • it has a unquie history • and the state bird is the Willow Golden-Finch