Nevada

Nevada By: Nick Mudgett and Alex Meckley Business Presentations 11/6/2009

Overview
Web Site
Capital
History
Location
Flag
Population
Size
Industries
Attractions
Climate
Natural Resources
Major Cities/Colleges
Current Events
Famous People
State Motto
State Flower, Bird, ext.
Nickname

Brief History
The region now occupied by the State of Nevada was held by the Goshute, Mojave, Paiute, Shoshone and Washoe Indians and claimed by the Spanish Empire until the early 1800s

Spanish explorations into this region have never been documented clearly enough to establish any European party constituting the earliest expedition into Nevada

Before the discovery of gold in the West, the vast region between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, including what is now Nevada, was designated on many maps as "Great American Desert." The "Great Basin," an area of interior drainage by definition, named by John C. Fromont following his expeditions of the 1840s, does not cover all of the present area of the State of Nevada, since tributaries of the Snake River in the north and those of the Colorado in the south drain waters to the Pacific Ocean.

Geographic location (western state beside California)

Flag
blue with logo in the top lefthand
corner

State Website / Capital official website- www.nv.com Capital-Carson City capital building

Population/Size/Climate
1,998,257 People in Nevada

110,540 square miles in Nevada

Sunny and dry, with wide variation in daily temperatures.

Man vs. Wild - Nevada Desert

Tourist Attractions
Las Vegas
Hoover Dam
Lake Tahoe
Lake Mead
Great Basin National Park
Lehman Caves
Overton - Valley of Fire State Park

Major Cities/Colleges
Cities:
Las Vegas
Clark
Carson City
Colleges:
University of Phoenix
ITT Tech
The Art Institute of
Las Vegas
Nevada State
University of Nevada,
Reno
University of Las
Vegas

Natural Resources/Industries
Resources:
Coal
Copper
Iron
Silver

Industries:
Cattle

Current Events
Public option is in health care bill heading to Senate floor

Where's Home-Buyer Tax Credit Headed in the House, Senate? - CNBC

NV Energy to get grant for smart grid technologies - Las Vegas Sun

NV Energy Receives Smart Grid Grant - KOLO TV Reno

Recently Built Underground City for Water

State Bird/Nickname/etc.
Bird - Mountain Blue Bird
Animal - Desert Bighorn
Flower - Sagebrush
Tree - Single-Leaf Pinon

Nickname - Silver State

Rock - Sandstone

State Famous People/Motto
Famous People:
Andre Agassi
Ben Alexander
James E. Casey
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Patricia Ryan Nixon (Richard Nixon's Wife)

Motto:
All for Our Country

Summary
Flag is blue with logo in the top lefthand
corner
Capital is Carson City
1,998,257 People in Nevada
Climate is sunny and dry with wide variation of daily temperatures
Nickname is Silver State
Rock is sandstone
Bird is Mountain Blue Bird
Motto - "All for our Country"

Sources
http://www.50states.com/
http://nevada-history.org/
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/us/A0859936.html
http://www.city-data.com/states/Nevada-Climate.html
http://minerals.state.nv.us/
http://www.longislandexchange.com/news/nevada-news.php
http://www.e-referencedesk.com/resources/state-famous-people/nevada.html
http://homeschooling.about.com/cs/unitssubjgeog/p/susnvmotto.htm
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/General/Facts.cfm

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