Kansas Geography
This Kansas plant is tall and short grasses and helps protect from soil erosion
What are grasslands?
The tribe name that Kansas got its name from.
What is Kansa?
The reason dogs were domesticated so early on?
What is they could use them to hunt and for protection?
True or False: Most of the early Native American tribes in Kansas were not nomadic.
What is False?
The major cities in Kansas.
1. Wichita
2. Overland Park
3. Kansas City
4. Topeka
The major crops/industries in Kansas.
1. wheat
2. corn
3. mining
4. cattle
The animals that early peoples used to hunt in North America.
What are...
1. mammoth
2. mastodon
3. bison
The advantage a horse has over the dog for early peoples.
What is it able to carry heavier loads, including people?
This covers less than 4%of Kansas.
What are woodlands?
The most common animals in Kansas.
1. bison
2. antelope
3. groundhogs
4. pheasants
Some new tools early humans used as they evolved.
What are
1. Pottery vessels helped to improve food storage and cooking methods.
2. People began to create new tools, such as digging sticks, that aided in the cultivation of crops.
3. A bow and arrow traveled further and had more force.
The historic tribes of Kansas.
1. Wichita
2. Kansa
3. Osage
4. Pawnee
5. Plains Apache
The percentage of the aquifer that irrigates the land in the U.S.
What is 30%?
The number of states the aquifer is under.
What are 8 states?
The names of the two tribes that split after migrating from Louisiana and Arkansas to Nebraska.
1. Wichita
2. Pawnee
Some things that different parts of the buffalo were used for.
1. Meat was eaten
2. Skin was made into blankets, clothes, and tipis
3. Hair was used to weave rope
4. Horns were used for spoons or cups
5. Bones were made into tools
Why is aquifer important?
What is early settlers used the aquifer to survive the Kansas heat and provide water for their crops, animals or themselves?
The problem that the aquifer used to face.
What is farmers have used it far faster than it could be replenished. It can only be replenished using rainwater.
The main crops of the early Native American peoples.
1. corn
2. squash
3. pumpkins
The results of tribes competing for resources.
1. less resources to sustain different tribes in the area causing fighting between different tribes