5 Themes of Kansas by Sirey Rivera-Avila https://padlet.com/riveraavilasa/egn16owhjcs9 By: Sirey Rivera en-us 2018-10-23 13:13:07 UTC 2018-10-29 20:00:42 UTC hello@padlet.com Absolute Location riveraavilasa https://padlet.com/riveraavilasa/egn16owhjcs9/wish/295924142
  • -There is a certain spot on Kansas that is the center of the United States. 
  • The absolute location of Kansas is 37-40*N and 94-102*W. 

    • ]]>     2018-10-23 13:24:02 UTC https://padlet.com/riveraavilasa/egn16owhjcs9/wish/295924142     Relative Location riveraavilasa https://padlet.com/riveraavilasa/egn16owhjcs9/wish/295928658 Next to Colorado 
    • Below NE
    • Shaped like a rectangle with a bite 
    • Missouri River is the only border 
    • Landlocked 
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  • The Kansas landscape has been described as subtle
  • The elevation rises gradually on an incline at approximately 10 feet per mile 
  • today about one third of Kansas is prairie
  • Kansas is environmentally diverse, eastern Kansas has wooded areas areas and rolling hills
  • western kansas has high plains 
  • Kansas has often too much water or too little
  • Kansas is big 
  • it is 208 miles to from the north and 411 from the east to the west 
  • some lakes are also used to provide water to towns and to irrigate agricultural land
  • 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 lowest recorded 40 degrees below zero 
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  • From the beginning people used the natural resources available for them
  • trees were out down
  • stone was removed 
  • water was consumed from the rivers

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  • there are over 3,500 different types of insects in Kansas 
  • Some people reported that grasshoppers ate their clothes and the hair on their heads 
  • Only one percent are harmful to plants
  • Tallgrass
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  • Red Hills 
  • Glaciated Region
  • Ozark
  • High Plains
  • Smoky Hills 
  • Kansas River Lowlands 
  • Osage Cuestas
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  • Kansas has always had crossroads
  • Settlers passed through Kansas before it was open for settlers 
  • Today, Kansas has linked to the world through the internet, cable television, and satellite telephone services
  • as we exact natural resources from the ground we change the environment 

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