Vocabulary L.1
The imaginary lines that measures distance north and south of the equator.
What is latitude?
A generally flat treeless landscape that receives low levels of rainfall.
What is a plain?
What is the Arkansas River Lowlands?
The sea that covered Kansas millions of years ago.
What is Permian Sea?
Too little of rain can cause a ______________.
What is drought?
The imaginary lines that measure distance east to west of the prime meridian.
What in longitude?
A specific kind of plain that is dominated by grasses.
What is a prairie?
This area gets it name because the rust colors the hills.
What is the Red Hills.
Western Kansas doesn't have a lot of surface waters and they use an ___________________.
What is an aquifer.
A tornado warning means a tornado is ______?
What is spotted, on the ground, visible?
The exact location on Earth.
What is absolute location?
The process of supplying water to crops by redirecting water from another source.
What is irrigation?
Rolling hills that are good for ranching.
What is the Flint Hills?
Most of Eastern Kansas is _____________ water.
What is surface water?
This plays a part in all the weather in Kansas.
What is wind?
Where a place is in relations to other places or things.
What is relative location?
A layer of rock or sand that can absorb and hold water.
What is an aquifer?
This area has one of the largest salt beds.
What is the Wellington-McPherson Lowlands?
Nearly half of the birds migration patters bring them to this lake in Kansas.
What is Chyenne Bottoms?
The Blizzard of 1886 killed 80% of what?
What is cows?
sharing a common border, touching.
What is contiguous?
A community of living things interacting with their physical environment.
What is an ecosystem?
Glaciers dropped boulders in this area many years ago.
What is the glaciated region?
This is the number of rivers that are navigable in Kansas.
What is 3?
The name come from the Kansa whose names mean "the people of the __________ wind".
What is South?