Armstrong kids Nevada

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1. The state of Nevada was named after the _____ Nevada mountain range along it's share border with California.
4. Nevada has more of these wild animals than any other state.
6. You cannot ride a ______ on the highway. Since the 1800s, camels were used to move things across the desert. They were a lot slower than cars, and caused traffic jams so a law was made against using them. (hint: a large, long-necked ungulate mammal of arid country, with long slender legs, broad cushioned feet, and either one or two humps on the back. )
8. This is a strange bush to be Nevada's state flower
9. The oldest _______ ever found of humans in the United States were discovered in the Hidden Cave in Nevada in 1949. (Hint-the plural form for what the all the bones are called when everything else has rotted away from a human who has died)
11. The tallest freestanding observation tower in the United States is the _____ in Las Vegas. (hint:the layer of the earth's atmosphere above the troposphere, extending to about 32 miles (50 km) above the earth's surface (the lower boundary of the mesosphere - ˈstradəˌsfir).
13. The word 'Tahoe' is the result of a mispronunciation of the first two _____ of the Washoe's word – Da ow a ga – which translates to “edge of the lake.” You can consider them the original Tahoe locals, and like us, they enjoyed the lake and its surrounding land for all it had to offer.
18. The lowest point in Nevada is on the ____ River which is 143 metres above sea level. (hint: think river that flows through the Grand Canyon.)
19. one-______ the population of Nevalda lives in Las Vegas.
20. Nevada is one of 2 states addedd to the Union during the Civil War.
21. Nevada has more of these groups of mountains than any other state in the U.S.
22. The largest lake in North America is Lake ____.
23. It is ironic that it is nicknamed the ______ (light shiny colored semi-precious metal) when it is actually the argest God producing state in the U.S. and 4th largest in the World.
27. This type of rats found in the Mojave Desert, can live their whole lives without even drinking a drop of water.
28. Nevada is in a region that has a lot of mountains, ______ and sandy deserts.(a large open area of country covered with grass, especially one used for grazing.)
30. This town used to be the biggest city in Nevada, but now it's the second smallest county seat in the whole of the U.S. It is located on highway 95 mostly East of Yosemite National Park and just a little south.
33. Much of Nevada is undeveloped because it is a ________.
34. Not surprisingly the main industries in Nevada state are tourism, _________, manufacturing, agriculture and mining. The nicknames for Las Vegas are The ___________ Capital of the World and The City of Second Chances and Lost Wages.
36. Virginia City is supposedly the most ______ town in North America. That means it should be happy to celebrate halloween.
38. The Las Vegas _____is 4.2 miles long.
39. We all know the phrase "a dog is a man's best friend", and in Nevada the punishment for hurting someone's dog is _____ high. Shooting someone's dog can even be punishable by death.
40. if the four hundred million people who visit Las Vegas every year stayed one night in one of the one hundred fifty thousand hotel rooms how many people would be in each room (rounded to the nearest integer).
41. The name Nevada comes from the Spanish word 'nevada', which means "______." This is because of the snowy Sierra Nevada mountain range.
45. Thsi activity, illegal in most other states, has been legal in Nevada since 1931.
46. A Spanish trader in the early 1800’s encountered an area of natural artesian springs surrounded by a lush meadow of wild desert grasses in the desert of souther Nevada. These meadows were the birthplace of this famous city and the name of this city means "The Meadows" in spanish.It's name is Las _______.

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2. There are more than 44,000 acres of ____ made by humans in Nevada.
3. RED FLAG is a realistic _______ training exercise involving the air forces of the United States and its allies. Training takes place at Nellis Air Force Base.(fighting between armed forces -kämˌbat)
5. There is a 98 mile road in Nevada that is called the __________ Highway, where lots of people claim to have seen UFOs.
7. there are 100 miles of _______ in the Comstock mining area of Nevada.
9. As one of the driest states in the U.S. it only averages ______ (the perfect number) inches of rain per year.
10. This location near Nellis Airforce Range and Nuclear Test Site is well known for secret aircraft and UFO's. It is a word followed by a 2 digit number with the space removed for the purposes of this puzzle.
12. There is an air base that is near to Rachel in Nevada called Area 51. There is a famous myth that UFOs have been sighted there.Every year tourists go to Area 51 in the hope that they will see aliens or UFOs because a man who used to work there claimed that it was used to study alien spacecrafts.
14. America's largest silver deposit, the ______ Lode, was found in Nevada in 1859.
15. The hard hats that we see construction workers wearing today were invented in 1933 for the workers on _____ Dam.
16. Carson City is one of the only two capital cities in North America that borders another state. What is the name of that state?
17. Over ______ million people go to Las Vegas every single year. Women never want to admit to being this age, they prefer to remain 39.
24. If you add up all the numbers on a ______ wheel in Las Vegas, you get 666. A wheel used for gambling with dice.
25. If you continue north out of Winnemucca Nevada on US 95 you will be on one of the lonliest roads on the contiguous 48 states. This 175 mile stretch to the next incorporated community has very few with very few communities along it. The road passes through unincorporated town of Rebel Creek (population unknown)and just before leaving Nevada passes thorugh McDermitt (poulation 126). Then after passing into Oregon at the juntion of OR 78 you will pass through the the unincorported community of Burns Junction (Population unknown) but it has a truck scales on the south side of Highway 95). The hiway then turns East for another 45 miles and you will encounter the first incorporated town (in 175 miles) with the wopping population of 147 people. You will come to is _______ Valley Oregon which is only 2 miles from the Idaho border. Of note, because the closest towns of any size are in Idaho, this part of Oregon is in the mountain time zone rather than Pacific Time zone.
26. You are allowed to run a red light if you are the first car in a funeral ___________.
29. Before the United States took over the state in 1848, Nevada was claimed by Mexico and this country in South-Western Europe.
31. Las Vegas has more hotel rooms than any other city on _____. There are 150,000.
32. People in Nevada consume over 60,000 pounds of ______every day, which is more than in the whole rest of the country combined. (a small free-swimming crustacean with an elongated body, typically marine and frequently harvested for food.)
35. If you have every worn a pair of blue denim jeans first produce by Levis, then you should thank Jacob Davis, a Tailor from Nevada.
37. The Hoover Dam is one of Nevada's biggest tourist attractions because it's the biggest _____ works project in the history of the United States.
42. With an average of 201 sunny days per year, this town is one of the sunniest towns in Nevada. To travel north out of Las Vegas for about 420 miles on US 95, then turn right ont interstate 80 and drive for another 95 miles. If you have found the right town you will see that US 95 continues north out of this town.
43. Nevada is one of the only states to become much _____ after its admission into the Union.
44. _______ of the twenty-five largest hotels in the world are in Las Vegas