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Castle rock in Gove County

Prairies are 1/3 of the land, Great Plains

Kansas is 208 miles from North to South,411 from east to west.

Highest place is Mt. Sunflower in Wallace County

Has an inland sea called the Permian Sea.

400+ variety of plants, about 150 species of bird, 39 different reptiles, and 31 species of mammals

Has the Ogallala aquifer, which is 500 feet deep in some places

Cheyenne Bottoms is one of the few natural lakes

Highest temp. ever recorded is 121 degrees, and weather can be sporadic at times

Less than 4% of Kansas is covered in forests, mainly because prairie fires destroy most of the early tree growth. However, prairie fires are good

Most species of animals were driven out or endangered because of hunting and changing the landscape.

3,500+ types of insects

Grasshoppers are commonly found and are a danger to plants, once there was a huge swarm that blocked out the sun

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-Kansas, is "America's Heartland", and is the center of America if you don't count Alaska and Hawaii.

-Kansas is located in between the 37th and 40th parallels north latitude, and between 94 and 102 degrees of west longitude.

-On the opposite side of the world from Kansas is the Kansu Province of China, Jiuquan.

-It's next to Colorado and below Nebraska, and shaped like a rectangle with a bite taken out of it.

-Only natural border is the Missouri river.

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People cut down trees, mine stone, and collect water from rivers

The Pawnee built lodges out of mud, and the Wichita made grass houses

Later people constructed homes out of sod and wood

We plow and irrigate prairies, as well as extract oil, gas, coal, and zinc from the ground.

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People have traveled to, from, and through the state, bringing new ideas and information

New forms of transportation of information linked Kansas to other places

Now, information has linked Kansas to the entire world through the internet, cable TV, and satellite telephone services

Goods are services are frequently moved in and out of the state

We export wheat all across the world

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Kansas can be divided into 11 different regions.

High plains, originally formed by sediments from the Rocky Mountains

Red Hills, which have lots of iron oxide

Glaciated regions, which were once covered in glaciers, but now it just has quartzite boulders

Ozark Plateau, which has caves and lots of limestone

Arkansas River Lowlands, which is mainly rocks from the Rocky Mountains

Wellington-McPherson Lowlands, which contains salt and water

Cherokee Lowlands, which are a fairly calm but rolling landscape

Chautauqua Hills, which are low hills topped with limestone

Smoky Hills, which has haze visible in the morning, hence its name

Flint Hills Uplands, which is well known for ranching.

Osage Cuestas, which have cliffs that are 50-200 ft high