Chapter 1 Kansas

A period of time with below average precipitation

• Erosion

• Aquifer

• Drought

The environmental features that make a place different from other places.

• Physical features

• Conterminous States

• Relative Location

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

• Precipitation

• Erosion

• Aquifer

Description of a location that uses longitude and latitude

• Relative Location

• Absolute Location

• Physical Features

An underground layer of rock that holds water

• Aquifer

• Erosion

• Precipitation

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

• Absolute Location

• Conterminous States

• Relative Location

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

• Absolute Location

• Relative Location

• Aquifer

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

• Drought

• Precipitation

• Erosion

What forms Kansas' only natural border?

• Atlantic Ocean

• Rocky Mountains

• Missouri River

• Ogallala Aquifer

The Permian Sea:

• became the Kansas River

• exists today near Salina, KS

• was a prehistoric sea thousands of years ago

• made buffalo extinct