Kansas Geography
The exact position on Earth using latitude and longitude.
What is absolute location?
An underground layer of rock that holds water.
What is an aquifer?
This word describes average weather over a long period?
What is Climate?
A community of living things interacting with their environment.
What is an ecosystem?
Change your practices to live with the environment.
What is adapting?
Sharing the same border or touching.
What is contiguous?
Bringing water to crops.
What is irrigation?
This is the kind of extreme weather Kansas is most famous for.
What are Tornadoes?
A large, mostly flat area covered with grasses.
What is a prairie?
One example of how Kansans have impacted the environment is.
What is farming, irrigation, mining, building wind farms, controlling rivers?
This is what “erosion” does to land over time.
What is it wears it away through wind, water, or ice?
A huge aquifer under western Kansas that provides water for farming and drinking.
What is the Ogallala Aquifer?
Rain, snow, sleet, and hail are examples of.
What is precipitation?
This happened during the grasshopper invasion in Kansas.
What was grasshoppers ate crops, clothes, wood, and nearly everything in their path?
Protecting natural resources so they aren’t used up.
What is conservation?
Name one of the regions of Kansas.
What are the High Plains, Flint Hills, Smoky Hills, Red Hills, Chautauqua Hills, Cherokee Lowlands, Arkansas River Lowlands, Glaciated Region, Osage Cuestas, Ozark Plateau, Wellington-McPherson Lowlands?
The largest wetland in Kansas where millions of birds migrate.
What is the Cheyenne Bottoms?
A long period with little or no rainfall.
What is a drought?
Name one native plant to Kansas prairies.
What are big bluestem, switchgrass, Indian grass, coneflower?
The difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources is.
What is renewable can be replaced naturally (like wind or trees); nonrenewable cannot (like oil or minerals)?
This ancient sea once covered Kansas millions of years ago.
What is The Permian Sea?
This is why water conservation is important in Kansas.
What is to protect limited water resources for future use?
Name two types of extreme weather that can happen in Kansas besides tornadoes.
What are blizzards, floods, droughts, hailstorms?
This is how animals adapt to Kansas’s extreme climate.
What is migrating birds, burrowing animals, or animals growing thick coats in winter?
37°–40° N, 94°–102° W is.
What is the latitude and longitude ranges of Kansas?