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Kansas Word Search

Wheat fields cover much of Kansas, enough that the state usually outgrows every other one and picked up the name Breadbasket. Topeka is the state capital and Wichita is the largest city.

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Find these 15 words

15 words, adds diagonals

  • bison
  • cattle
  • cow town
  • dodge city
  • farm
  • grain
  • kansas city
  • plains
  • prairie
  • sunflower
  • topeka
  • tornado
  • train
  • wheat
  • wichita

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Words in the Kansas word search

Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.

wheat
Kansas usually leads the nation in growing wheat
sunflower
The wild native sunflower is the Kansas state flower
prairie
Grassland that covers much of Kansas
tornado
Kansas sits in Tornado Alley and sees storms each spring
farm
Farms and ranches cover about eighty eight percent of Kansas
bison
The American bison is the Kansas state animal
plains
Wide flat land stretching across western Kansas
cattle
Kansas ranches raise millions of beef cattle
train
Railroads carried Kansas cattle and wheat to eastern markets
topeka
The capital of Kansas, in the northeast
wichita
Kansas's largest city, known for building airplanes
kansas city
A city on the Missouri border sharing a name with its neighbor
dodge city
An old cattle town on the Santa Fe Trail
sunflower state
The official nickname of Kansas
cow town
A frontier town where cattle were loaded onto trains
grain
Harvested seed from wheat, corn and other crops
windmill
Windmills pumped well water for farms on the dry plains
meadowlark
The western meadowlark is the Kansas state bird
cottonwood
The cottonwood is the state tree of Kansas
flint hills
A band of rocky hills holding the largest tallgrass prairie left

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