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.
Kansas word search (Easy)
Find these 10 words
10 words, across and down only
- bison
- cattle
- farm
- plains
- prairie
- sunflower
- topeka
- tornado
- train
- wheat
Kansas word search (Medium)
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
Kansas word search (Hard)
Find these 20 words
20 words, any direction, backwards too
- bison
- cattle
- cottonwood
- cow town
- dodge city
- farm
- flint hills
- grain
- kansas city
- meadowlark
- plains
- prairie
- sunflower
- sunflower state
- topeka
- tornado
- train
- wheat
- wichita
- windmill
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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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