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This is where Kansas is located in the United States.
What is the center of the United States?
100
It is the state flower.
What is the sunflower.
100
Kansas was named after them.
Who are Kanza people?
100
This is where the capital of Kansas is located.
What is Topeka?
100
These are three things that explores traveling through Kansas may have brought with them.
What are ropes, compasses, lanterns, telescopes, and/or blankets.
200
This is the highest point in Kansas.
What is Mount Sunflower?
200
This is the state tree.
What is the cottonwood tree?
200
This is the state song written by Brewster Higley ad Daniel Kelley.
What is "Home on the Range"?
200
He is the governor of Kansas.
Who is Sam Brownback?
200
It became the state animal in 1955.
What is a buffalo?
300
It makes up the northeast border of Kansas.
What is the Missouri River?
300
This is the state insect.
What is the honeybee?
300
He was a Kansan and the 34th president of the United States.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
300
The 34 stars on the Kansas flag stands for this.
What is the 34th state to enter the union?
300
Kansas became a state on this date.
What is January 29, 1861.
400
This is the largest city in Kansas.
What is Wichita?
400
It is the state bird.
What is the western meadowlark?
400
He was the first European to travel to the land that became Kansas.
Who is Francisco Vasquez de Coronado?
400
The state motto, "Ad Astra per Aspera" (To the stars through difficulty," means this.
What is doing something that you believe in even though it is difficult. (Speaks to the struggles Kansas went through to become a state.)
400
Coronado and his men came to land in Kansas in 1541 looking for this.
What is wealth? (Seven cities of gold)
500
These are the states that border Kansas.
What are Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Missouri?
500
This is the state reptile.
What is the ornate box turtle?
500
They had three main goals when they explored land that included Kansas: 1. find a water route to the Pacific Ocean, 2. learn about Native Americans, and 3. record information on everything they learned about the new land.
Who are Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.
500
These are 3 things that can be found on the Kansas seal and what they mean.
What are: Buffalo: state animal Native Americans on horseback: first people to live here Wagons & Oxen: settlers & pioneers who settled in Kansas Log House: settlement & desire to make new homes in KS Riverboat: early transportation Horses, Plow, & Farmer: agriculture 34 Stars: 34th state to enter the Union Ad Astra per Aspera: state motto January 29, 1861: When KS became a state
500
This is what the blue and gold bar on the Kansas flag stands for.
What is being part of the Louisiana Purchase?
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