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  1. 3. Originally called rhe "Great Salt Lake City", If Utah had been a state it would have been the the only state capital with four words in its name. In 1868 it dropped the word Great. But that did not change the distinction. Today it is the only state capital with _____ words in its name.
  2. 4. Utah was forced to ban a man having more than one wife, known as _____ in order be become a state. There is still at least one fringe mormon sect that practices one man having multiple wives in spite of the fact that it is not legal.
  3. 6. The Wasatch mountain range is named after a Ute Indian name meaning “___pass” or “low place in a high ____” (extremely large hill)
  4. 8. The state of Utah has an interesting geography. It features three distinct land forms. These include the _____ (Big stones) Mountains, the Colorado Plateau and the Basin and Ridge Region.
  5. 10. Two dates appear on the state seal 1847 and 1896 . The first date is when the first settlers arrived, the second is the year that Utah became a ______.(full fledged political unit with representation in congress and the right to vote in federal elections.)
  6. 11. There are over 200 _______ formed arches at the Arches Natonal Park In Utah. Want to guess how the park got its name?(without special help or intervention; in a natural manner.)
  7. 12. Utah is one of two states that outlaw all forms of gambling. The other is ______ (the only U.S. state composed entirely of Islands)
  8. 16. In 1848, crickets were terrorizing Utah settlers by devouring their crops. A flock of California ___s flew in and ate the crickets, saving the crops and the settlers’ food. In gratitude, the California ___ was revered and was later named the state bird of Utah.
  9. 17. Rainbow _____, Nature’s abstract sculpture carved of solid sandstone, is the world’s largest natural-rock span. It stands 278 feet wide and 309 feet high. (struture accoss an open area)
  10. 19. Utah’s Great Salt Lake is about four times saltier than any of the world’s oceans. If a person boiled 1 quart of water from the saltiest part of the lake, one - _____(either of two equal) cup of salt would remain. It is so salty because as the ancient Lake Bonneville dried up, salt and other minerals were left behind. Because the shrinking lake had no stream out to sea, the salt deposits became concentrated in the lake.
  11. 21. The state symboll is a _______ (where honey bees live) because it symboloizes thrit and Industry.
  12. 22. The Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City took ___ (quarante) years to complete. The Mormon temples in St. George, Manti and Logan Utah were completed before the Salt Lake Temple.
  13. 24. Utah is the only state to have a cooking pot among its state symbols. The Dutch ____ was approved as a state symbol by the legislature in 1997.(a large, heavy cooking pot with a lid.)
  14. 25. In 1896, Martha Hughes Cannon was elected the first woman senator. Interestingly, one of her closest opponents was her ____ (matrimonial partner). She received 10,288 votes while her husband only received 8,054 votes.
  15. 26. In Utah there is a town called “Levan.” Levan is “navel” backwards—and Levan is in the center, or is the “navel,” of Utah.
  16. 31. On May 10, 1869, the First Transcontinental _______ was completed at Promontory Summit, Utah. (a track or set of tracks made of steel rails along which passenger and freight trains run.)
  17. 35. Approximately 62% of Utahans are Mormons, or members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Utah is the most _______ state in the United States in terms of religion.(ˌhōməˈjēnēəs of the same kind, like)
  18. 36. Utah has the third most national parks of any state after Alaska and ______.(west coast southern state)
  19. 39. Utah facts show that Mexico gained independence from this southwestern ______ country of Spain in 1821 and claimed the Alta California area for itself. Alta California was established in 1804 by ______ and included what would later become the states of California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming. The end of the Mexican-American war of 1848 led to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ceded the area to the United States.
  20. 40. Newspaper rock hasserved a a sort of newspaper for the natives who lived here for 2000 _____.(the time taken by the earth to make one revolution around the sun.)
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  1. 1. Utah is home to the United States' first department store, Zions Co-operative Mercantile Institution. Today it is known as ZCMI(a store with many divisions deal with specific commodities)
  2. 2. Utah is the only state where every ____ contains some part of a national forest.(Political unit just below state in size)
  3. 5. Utah is home to one of the oldest living organisms in the world. Located in the Fishlake National Forest, the trembling giant is a grove of Aspen trees. What makes these trees interesting is that they have a single _____ (underground) system. And this also means that the trees are genetically identical. It is also referred to as Pando. This Latin word means ‘I spread’, and is quite appropriate for the Aspens. The leaves of the trees begin to flutter, even with a slight breeze, and rightly grant the trees their moniker of quaking aspens.
  4. 7. South Jordan is home to an 80,000 square feet _____ (international football)facility. The building houses two futsal fields, two indoor fields plus a lounge. Visitors who come to party can rent a designated party area.
  5. 9. Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument was designated a national monument in 1996 by then-President Bill Clinton. This is the United States’ largest national monument, protecting 1,880,461 acres in southern Utah. This monument is larger than the state of _____ and is home to gorgeous geological structures, as well as surprising paleontological finds. (State Maryland and New Jersey)
  6. 12. Utah’s nickname “Beehive State” honors its Mormons settlers. The community people wanted the state to enter the Union with the name Deseret, meaning “____.” ( an insect that produces honey) However, Congress thought that the name sounded like desert so the state was named after the native Ute people.
  7. 13. The Great Salt Lake is the largest of its kind in the Western world. Though the size of the lake keeps changing, based on the season, it is spread across about 1700 square miles. The water in the lake has nine times more salt than that found in oceans. Great Salt Lake is salty because it does not have an ____ (a place where water can escape other than evaporation). It has this last characteristic in common with the dead sea (in Israel), the Salton Sea and Death Valley in california.
  8. 14. Utah’s first Mormon (Latter-Day Saints) settlement was made by Brigham Young when he arrived in Salt Lake Valley with 148 Mormons. On July 24, 1847 when he first saw the Salt Lake valley he said “This is the place.” They came to Utah to escape persecution in _____ (atate containing city of Chicago).
  9. 15. The state of Utah lies on the Western side of the United States of America, and in the Rocky Mountain Region. Its unique location has blessed the state with magnificent mountains and canyons. Kings Peak (13,534 feet (4,125 m)), in the Uinta Mountains is Utah’s highest peak. The state has ______ national parks.
  10. 18. The Escalante River is generally considered to be the last major river to be “_____” (found) by European decenents who settled and explored contiguous United States.
  11. 19. It is illegal to fish while on _____ (i.2. riding a horse)
  12. 20. Salt Lake City hosted the opening ceremony for the _____ (dedicated to cold weather sports) Olympics, 2002. Americans won a total of 34 medals in the event.
  13. 23. Utah couples marry at a _______ age than in any other state in the country. The median age for a first marriage in Utah is 26.2 for the groom and 24.1 for the bride. The average for the rest of the United States is 29.1 for the groom and 27.1 for the bride.
  14. 27. Approximately 75 million years ago, Utah was part of a landmass called Laramidia. This land mass was hot, swampy, and full of dinosaurs, which makes Utah one of the best places in the U.S. to find dinosaur fossils. In fact, the world’s largest _____ (a bird of prey) lived in Utah. Known as the “Utahraptor,” it measured over 23 feet long, making it larger than any other known raptor.
  15. 28. Utah restaurants and bars have a unique partition that separates restaurant bartenders who are preparing drinks from the customers who order them. Their aim is to prevent excessive drinking by keeping ____ (ˈalkəˌhôl,ˈalkəˌhäl) out of sight. These partitions are called “Zion Curtains” by locals.
  16. 29. This famous salt flats 110 miles west of Salt Lake City is the home of many land speed records.
  17. 30. In 1912, the first electric traffic light was developed by a policeman Lester F. Wire in Salt Lake City. It was first installed at the _____ of 200 South and Main Street in Salt Lake City. However, in 1914, the first traffic signal system was installed in Cleveland, Ohio.(a point at which two or more things intersect, especially roads.)
  18. 32. Utah has one of the highest rates of prescription drug _____ (misuse) in the United States. Over the past decade, it has increase by 800%.
  19. 33. Even though Colonel Sanders was from Kentucky and his recipie was developed there, the first _____ resteraunt to feature his chicken as Harman cafe in Salt Lake City.
  20. 34. This county gets it name from the big coal deposits that can be found there. ____(ˈkärbən) is by far the major component of coal, is the principal source of heat, generating about 14,500 British thermal units (Btu) per pound.
  21. 36. The Bingham Canyon Mine is considered to be the biggest man-made pit in the world. For over a _____(unit of time indicating 100 years), miners have been at work here. Every day the pit gets bigger as the mining company continues to take out about 250,000 tons of rock from it. The enormous crater created by mining activity is visible from space. The mine is restricted to visitors due to safety issues.
  22. 37. The southeast corner of Utah is a unique place where 4 states meet at a singe point. It is known as the four _____.(A place or angle where two or more sides or edges meet.)
  23. 38. The name “Utah” is derived from the name of the ____(yo͞ot) Native American tribe. The name means “people of the mountains.”