The North American Prairie Part One: a. the location of the North American Prairies: • All areas of the American Prairie include North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. (Wikipedia.org) B. Basic environmental conditions: • About 12.6 inches of rain in the short grass prairies and about 21 in tall grass prairies. Really dry in the summer months. Strong winds throughout the whole year. Fires occur every 1-5 years. (blueplanetbiomes.org) C. Plants of the prairie: • Plants in the prairie have an underground root system. So the roots can die and then grow back when winter is over. There is a plant that grows in prairie called turkey
Do to the cold climate most plants are tiny ground cover plants, which grow and reproduce with not a lot of haste. They shield themselves from the cold and wind by hugging close to the ground. Some of
The effect of being Plains Indians located on a reservation in Oklahoma during the 1900. Between 1865 and 1900 there have numerous events that have occurred for the plains Indians that changed their way of thinking, and their way of life here in the United States of America. It all started with as a simple introduction of the horses, buffalo, boarding schools, loss of land and major attacks on the Indians.
Since this has a lot of agriculture, there are many animals in this landform such as deer, elk, wolves, and antelope. These animals are depending on these trees to breathe and survive in the interior plains, to give the humans and other animals oxygen. The plants living in the Interior Plains do not follow the photosynthesis cycle! They actually inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. So even the plants are depending on the trees to get oxygen! During the winter, the Interior Plains turn into a tundra landscape. When the area turns into a tundra, the plants die. This means the herbivores have nothing to eat, so they have to eat the parts of the trees like
The main Indian tribes that lived in the Great Plains and Mountain Basin region were the Tigua, Comanche, Apache, Kiowa, and Jumano.
The North Central Plains region is mostly rural grasslands and small towns with a few large cities. Most of this prairie land is thick grasses. There is also a cross timbers area full of hardwood trees. Farming is common here because of the fertile soil. So there are many kinds of crops grown in this region. There also commonly short prairie grass. Climate in the region/area can be extreme. In the winters its cold, but in the summer it can be the hottest area in Texas. The average rainfall is 20 - 30 inches a year and during the spring there can be violent storms and tornadoes. Landforms in the Central Plains region of Texas is part of a larger Central Plains region of North America. It is made up of 3 separate areas. They are the Grand Prairie, the Cross Timbers, and the Rolling Plains. Each of these areas has a different type of landform, and they include prairies, forests, and
Plant life tends to be of low growth and, during the short summer, the birds arrive in large numbers to feed on the insects that are born in this period. The climate is cold summers and very cold winters characterize the tundra area in the northern most limit plant growth. Areas
The American territory was sprawling across the Mississippi River and into new Native American territory. The Great Plains and far West were occupied by both Indians and Hispanics whose custom and way of live were distinct in language religion and kinship and governance. The white settlers and hunters were a threat to the resources in which they used for survival.
The climate of the interior plains is continental, which basically means that the climate is relatively dry with extremely hot summers and cold winters. The weather is very diverse and may change quickly without warning. In the North of the physiographic region, the winters are long and the summers are short and cool whereas in the South, the the winters are harsh with little precipitation and long summers. Although the humid weather and the flat lands create an ideal place to grow crops like wheat and corn, the growing season itself is quite short, even in the southern region due to the lack of precipitation needed for diversified crops to flourish. The flat prairies east to the Rockies is a meeting ground for Arctic, Pacific and
The summers are warm and short. The winters are cold and long. Precipitation ranges from more than 500 mm per year in the north to less than 300 mm in the south of the Prairies. The winter mean temperatures for the coldest months vary from -9.4°C in Lethbridge and -18.3°C in Winnipeg. In contrast, the mean temperature for the warmest month in Winnipeg is 19.7°C. The grasses tend to have long roots which penetrate deep into the soil where they could find moisture. The northern edge of this ecozone marks the beginning of the transition into forest areas. Prior to agricultural settlement in the late 19th century, the Prairie ecozone was the home of millions of bison. Today, mammals of this ecozone include mule and white-tailed deer, coyote, pronghorn (south-central portion), badger, whitetail jackrabbit, Richardson's ground squirrel, northern pocket gopher and the prairie dog. Unique bird species include ferruginous hawk, greater prairie chicken, sharp-tailed grouse, American avocet, burrowing owl, great blue heron, black-billed magpie and Baltimore oriole. Plains grizzlies, swift fox and greater prairie chickens are a few of animals to disappear from the
2) Which of the following statements best describes the effect of climate on biome distribution?
Would you like to see the Atlantic Ocean?When you go to eastern canada you will see a lot of people in the airport but there are the beaches,good food and nice jewelry. In eastern canada you try new foods,See new sights, and hear about the culture / history.
The physical environment greatly impacted Native American cultures and their ways of life in the Great Basin, Southwest, Great Plains, and Mississippi River Valley regions. They constructed complex monuments and buildings, thrived on cultivating whatever their region of land had to offer, dealt with climate changes, and also dealt with the European settlers. The first Americans lived lives that revolved around nature and the resources their environment gave them. Without its impact, they would not be able to survive.
The name of my tribe is the Eastern Woodlands. The location of my tribe is in the Southeast portion of North America. The Eastern Woodlands have more than one tribe. Two of them were called the Mohawks and Huron. The Eastern Woodlands covered up the East Coast of North America from the Atlantic to the West of the Mississippi River. This is some of the information about my tribe called the Eastern
---. “Summer and Winter Drought in a Cold Desert Ecosystem (Colorado Plateau).” Utah State University, vol. 61, no. 1, 2005,
The Great Plains consisted of, but not all of Colorado , Kansas, Montana, Oklahoma, Nebraska, New Mexico, South and North