Chapter 1 KS History Study Guide

What is a period of time with below average precipitation?

• aquifer
• erosion
• drought
• precipiatation

What are the environmental features that make a place different from other places?

• absolute location
• aquifer
• physical features
• political features

Water in the air that falls to the earth as rain or snow

• drought
• zumba
• precipitation
• groundwater

Description of a location that uses latitude and longitude

• relative location
• absolute location
• Atlantic Ocean
• rainwater

An underground layer of rock that holds water

• aquifer
• drought
• erosion
• mountains

States of the United States that are contained within the same boundaries

• relative location
• absolute location
• conterminous states
• connected states

Description of a location as it relates to the location of other places

• relative location
• absolute location
• Atlantic Ocean
• rainwater

A process of breaking down, such as the breaking down of rock by actions of wind and water

• drought
• erosion
• precipitation
• friction

Kansas's only natural border

• Atlantic Ocean
• Missouri River
• Rocky Mountains
• Arkansas River

The Permian Sea

• became the Kansas River
• exists today near Salina, Kansas
• was a prehistoric sea thousands of years ago
• made wooly mammoths extinct