why is Kansas so flat?

Question

Please answer in a scientific form.

Please answer in scientific form and more detailed form with a geology emphasis.

Please answer in scientific form and more detailed form with a geology emphasis.

Answer 1

You told me to use scientific form, so here goes...

Question: Is Kansas flat?
Description: Ground in Kansas perceivably does not change distance above sea level
Prediction: Ground is flat
Control: Nebraska
Identification of Causes: No mountains, valleys, or hills. No techtonic plates abutted underneath Kansas. No previous glacial activity.
Result: Kansas is flat.

Answer 2

Kansas isn't actually flat. In Western Kansas, it's rather hilly. Portions of Kansas seem flat to someone standing in a field because the wheat just goes on forever. If you wanna see flat, try the salt flats in Utah. That's where they always go to set land speed records because it's so flat (the result of it being an anient lake bed that has evaporated and little precipitation due to desert conditions prevents erosional forces to work. Utlimately Kansas seems so flat because there has not been any forces places upon it to alter it's ancient sea floor status other than erosion (which is why it's not actually "flat".

But the earth is, LOL. :}

Answer 3

Kansas is not all flatland. The western two thirds of the state, lying in the great central plain of the United States, has a generally flat or undulating surface, and on a large scale appears almost perfectly flat, however, the eastern third is more hilly and forested.

The land displays a gradual slope up from east to west; its altitude above the sea ranges from 684 feet (208 m) along the Verdigris River at Coffeyville in Montgomery County, to 4039 feet (1,231 m) at Mount Sunflower, one half mile from the Colorado border, in Wallace County.

Answer 4

Lack of geographic anomalies. Very few fault lines, no volcanoes, no impact sites for large meteors. This created enough of a flat plane that the wind picks up speed and erodes the rest of the small hills and valleys.

Answer 5

Because the Department of Transportation ran out of budget money for exit ramps that went uphill on I-70. They had to just make flat exit ramps.

Also, because the cows got tired of climbing hills.

Answer 6

Because it is in the middle of a tectonic plate.
When tectonic plates collide they form mountains and hills.

Answer 7

Why is Mt. Everest so...not flat?

Answer 8

'Coz God scraped it off his shoe after He stepped in it.

Answer 9

Because it has no hills... lol

Answer 10

it's not all flat.