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    Texas Biomes

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    There is different plants, animals, and environments in different environmental regions. For this paper we are focusing on the six different biomes structures we have in the state of Texas. The first biome I am going to discuss is the Central Prairies and Woodlands biome. This biome is located in the middle of biome 2 and 3 covering all of the coastal area from the Gulf of Mexico. The precipitation gradient in this area is the highest in the state of Texas. Averaging from 75-115 cm/yr. this concludes

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    the prairie and for prairie chickens. Perhaps a greater genuine risk to greater prominent prairie chickens and other meadow winged animals is the spread of intrusive trees like eastern red cedar, Osage orange, and others into parts of our Kansas prairies ( read greater: Tree Invasion). Humorously, this has come about because of too little use of controlled smoldering in a few districts and from disappointment of area administrators to rapidly perceive and react to the danger tree intrusion stances

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    The American Dream impacts society on wealth, fashion, and big houses. In his novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald explains to us of what he thinks of the American Dream. Fitzgerald glorifies the American Dream because he implies that not everyone can have The American Dream because they have to be willing to sacrifice the most important things. Fitzgerald glorifies The American Dream through showing you how luxurious and time commitment they put into to get what they want and how they get

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    Robert Thacker’s article Reading North Through the One-Way Mirror: Canadian Literature, the Canadian Literary Institution, and Alice Munro presents an American reading on various subjects found Canadian literature. Amongst many subjects discussed in the article, Thacker mentioned Canadian landscapes numerous times. Using novels such as Timothy Findley’s The Wars, he described the importance put by Canadian authors on the landscape through their descriptions of sceneries. The author explains how this

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    Texas Geography

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    Cities such as Corpus Christi, Galveston, and Houston are in the Gulf Coast region. Near the gulf waters you can see marshes, barrier islands, estuaries, where salty sea water and fresh river water meet, and bays. As you travel west, you can see prairies and grasslands. The Gulf Coast is home to many

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    Northern Ecozones

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    local areas can be hummocky and potholed, providing depressions for the establishment of wetlands, ponds and small lakes. On the other hand, in terms of vegetation, Prairie Ecozone is considerably lusher than Northern Arctic that the short-grass prairies in the south merge into mixed-grass and the tall-grass areas. As the moisture patterns improve northwards, grasslands expand. Though, as almost 95 percent of the Prairie Ecozone have been covert into farmland, the natural vegetation is generally

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    North America. The Great Plains, in the United States and Canada, have some of the world’s most valuable prairies, which grow some of the most important crops. In the United States North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico, and the Canadian provinces like Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan make up the Great Plains. The prairies in North America formed as the Rocky Mountains grew taller and taller. They grew taller and taller because

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    inflexible. Hutchison then describes the character of Quebec as being gay, but hard and practical. Ontario is described as bustling, able and provincial. He then comments that the growth in Toronto is so rare and baffling. Bruce Hutchison describes the prairies as being spacious, generous and naive. Lastly, Hutchison states that British Columbia is boyish, ravenous and self-centered. 1b. I have noticed that no region in Canada has a mean trait attached to them. They are are somewhat pleasant and congenial

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    advertisements endorsing immigration to Canada. My parents one day came home and looked over it. It promoted that anyone who was willing to settle in the Prairies would be given 169 acres of land. They wanted people to immigrate to the western part of Canada because by populating the land, it would slim the opportunity for America to invade the Prairies. This sounded like a tremendous idea. My dad used to work at a factory, but unfortunately he just lost his job to a machine. This placed my family in

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    Name of major natural system: Beach Dune. Location of major natural system: In Florida, these are primarily located continuously along the Atlantic coast from the state line- south to Cape Florida, Miami-Dade County, and on the Gulf coast of the peninsula from Anclote Key, Pasco County, south to Cape Romano, and Collier County (Florida Natural Areas Inventory, n.d.a.). Furthermore, in regard to counties where beaches are discontinuous, we are able to see two additional sites in the Florida Keys

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