Kansas History Chapter 1 Study Guide

What is Absolute Location?

• a period of time with below average temperatures

• Description of a location that uses latitude and longitude

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

• the environmental features that make a place different from other places

What is an aquifer?

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

• A period of time with below average precipitation

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

• An underground layer of rocks that holds water

Conterminous states

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

• material derived from living organisms

• materials such as stones and sand deposited by water, wind, or glacier

• a process of breaking down, like that moment when you realize that the one word you get confused with is the one on the test

Erosion

• an artificial lake used for the storage and regulation of water

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

• land drained by a river system

• an underground layer of rock that holds water

What are physical features?

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

• a community of living things that depend on each other in order to function as a unit

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

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

Drought

• A period of time with below average precipitation

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

• A period of time with lots of rain

• I ran out of ideas for a fourth option

Precipitation

• A period of time with below average precipitation

• a barrier of trees and shrubs that protects against the wind and reduces erosion

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

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

Relative Location

• lacking moisture, dry

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

• Description of a location that uses longitude and latitude

• to prepare land for planting crops

What forms Kansas' only natural border?

• the Atlantic Ocean

• the Missouri River

• the Rocky Mountains

• the 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