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There's a part of Kansas that is in the middle of the United States.
Absolute location:
KS is 37-40* N and 94-102*W
Relative location:

Next to Colorado

Below NE

Shaped like a rectangle with a bite.

Missouri river is only natural border.

Landlocked .

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The kansas landscape has been described as subtle.

Today about one third of Kansas is prairie.

Kansas is environmentally diverse, eastern Kansas has wooded areas and rolling hills. Western Kansas has high plains.

Kansas is big. It is 208 miles from north to south and 411 miles from east to west.

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Red Hills

Glaciated Region

Ozark

High Plains

Osage Cuestas

Smoky Hills

Kansas River Lowlands

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Interaction of Humans and the Environment.

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Interaction of Humans and the Environment.

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From the beginning, people used the natural resources available for them.

Trees were cut down.

Stone was removed from the ground.

Water was consumed from the rivers.

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Movement of people, products, and ideas.

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Movement of people, products, and ideas.

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Kansas has always been a crossroads.

Settlers passed through Kansas before it was open for settlement.

Today, Kansas are linked to the world through the Internet, cable television, and satellite telephone services.

As we extract natural resources from the ground, we change the environment,

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Kansas often has too much water or too little.

Some lakes are also used to provide water to towns and to irrigate agricultural land.

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The weather in Kansas changes quickly.

The climate in Kansas is classified as dramatic.

Wind is a dominant feature of the Kansas climate.

Temperatures change with the season, the average Kansas temperature is moderate, but weather here is rarely average.

The  highest recorded temperature is 121 degrees and the recorded low is 40 degrees below zero.

Less than 4 percent of Kansas is covered in forests.

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There are over 3,500 different types of insects in Kansas.

Some people reported that grasshoppers ate the clothes off their backs and the hair on their heads.

Only one percent are harmful to plants.