Vocab
Where a place is in relation to other places or things
What is relative location?
These two regions are split by the Arkansas River Lowlands
What are the Wellington-McPherson Lowlands and the High Plains?
True statements about Kansas weather
What are temperatures below freezing all year and blizzards and tornadoes are common?
The state animal
What is the American buffalo/bison?
Kansas state reptile
A community of living things interacting with their physical environment
What is an ecosystem?
To understand the connection between regions, cultures, and people
What is the study of movement?
Years of drought, pumping water for irrigation, and winds that cause evaporation
What are reasons the aquifer is drying up?
Development of machinery, irrigation, rotating crop fields, fertilization, commercial farming, adapting crops to Kansas soil, etc.
What is the improvement of Kansas farming over time?
Kansas state amphibian
Tiger barred salamander
To grow from scratch
What is cultivation?
Wichita's elevation
What is 1200-1800 feet?
The disappearance of large predatory animals and the devastation of the bison population
What is the arrival of humans?
Provides nutrition for wildlife, keeps the dusty soil from creating dust storms
What is the value of native Kansas grasses?
Kansas state motto
What is ad astra per aspera?
The exact location on Earth's sufrace
Remains of prehistoric animals that lived in the sea are used as sources of energy
What is the Permian Sea?
The difference between strip mining and traditional mining
What is strip mining removes the top layers of soil and rock
The state grass
What is Harney silt loam?
Digging underneath the soil creating large caverns for rock, mineral, and other discovery
What is traditional mining?
The preservation, protection, and restoration of the natural environment
What is conservation?
One benefit of this is that geographers can identify new patterns of geographic information
What are Geographic Information Systems (GIS)?
The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railway was founded and Sprint has roots in Kansas
What are true statements about communication and transportation in Kansas?
Consistently low water levels in the Ogallala Aquifer led to this
What is a lawsuit against Colorado
Kansas is in the center of the country, coast to coast travel can lead through, large farms and co-ops, natural resources for export
Why is Kansas a crossroads?