The 5n'tn't themes of Kansasasassaasassasasas geooooooooooooooography by Slade Swartley https://padlet.com/swartleysa/x0bemodjkzx0 Made with my goooochieeee time and work. en-us 2018-10-22 19:40:33 UTC 2018-10-24 19:45:42 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Tent.png Location of Kansas swartleysa https://padlet.com/swartleysa/x0bemodjkzx0/wish/296146345
  • Kansas is the "Heart" of the united states.
  • Absolute Location: 37-40* N - 94-102* W
  • Relative Location: Next to Colorado, And below Nebraska
    • We are landlocked 
    • Missouri river is the only natural border
    • Shaped similarly to a rectangle


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  • Kansas increases in elevation from east to west
  • In the southeast corner of the state the elevation is much lower at an incredible 700 feet!
  • Tallgrass used to cover a whopping 140 million acres, that's a lot of space!😯
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  • Water is necessary to sustain life
  • Kansas used to be completely submerged in a thin layer of salt.
  • Waconda Springs were thought to be a sacred healing place so a hotel was built and it was considered a spa.
  • Kansas made Colorado share the water because they had been hogging it all.
  • In Kansas there could be lots of water thanks to the rain but a week or so later there could be a drought and it would be hard to get water.
  • Kansas has more man-made lakes than they do natural ones.
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  • In the eastern part of Kansas the average annual precipitation is around 40 inches a year. In the west the annual average is around 18 inches a year
  • The temperature can feel colder or warmer than it actually is based on the humidity and the wind speed
  • Kansas can have lots of tornadoes blizzards droughts and floods.
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  • Less than 4% of Kansas is actually forest and most of it is fields.
  • Kansas has almost 1,600 varieties of blooming plants.
  • Kansas has the most sunflowers of any other state and has a whole 12 species of it!
  • Kansas' most common species of tree is the cottonwood and it is a fast-growing tree and it can reach up to 100 feet tall.
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  • A region is a subdivision of another area
  • Kansas is part of 11 physiographic regions
  • The regions are: High plains, Red hills, Glaciated region, Ozark plateau, Arkansas river lowlands, Smoky hills, Wellington-McPherson lowlands, Cherokee lowlands, Flint hills uplands, Osage cuestas, and Chautauqua hills

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