The Great plains

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• The Great plains is a vast area in the
center of North America that stretches
from the southern part of present-day
Canadian Alberta, Saskatchewan, and
Manitoba to the Gulf of Mexico.

3.

• The term Great Plains is used in the
United States to describe a sub-section
of the even more vast Interior Plains
physiographic division, which covers
much of the interior of North America.
It also has currency as region of
human geography, referring to the
Plains Indians or the Plains States.

4.

Climate
In general, the Great Plains have a wide
variety of weather through the year,
with very cold winters and very hot
summers. Wind speeds are often very
high. The prairies support an abundant
wildlife in undisturbed settings. Humans
have converted much of the prairies for
agricultural purposes or to create
pastures.

5.

• The 100th meridian roughly corresponds with the line that
divides the Great Plains into an area that receive 20 inches or
more of rainfall per year and an area that receives less than
20 in. In this context, the High Plains, as well as Southern
Alberta, south-western Saskatchewan and Eastern Montana are
mainly semi hot steppe land and are generally characterized by
rangeland or marginal farmland.

6.

• It is bound on the east by the
Mississippi River Valley and on
the west by the Rocky
Mountains, an area almost five
times as large as the state of
Texas.

7.

The Rocky Mountains (or the
Rockies) are a major mountain range
in western North America. The
Rocky Mountains stretch more than
3,000 miles (4,830 km) .
The Rocky Mountains were formed
from 80 million to 55 million years
ago by the Laramie progeny. Since
then, erosion by water and glaciers
have sculpted the mountain range
into dramatic valleys and peaks. At
the end of the last ice age, humans
started to inhabit the mountain
range.

8.

Currently, much of the
mountain range is protected
by public parks and forest
lands, and is a popular tourist
destination, especially for
hiking,
camping,
mountaineering,
fishing,
hunting,
skiing,
and
snowboarding.

9.

Mississippi River is the largest river
system in North America. Flowing
entirely in the United States, it rises in
western Minnesota and meanders
slowly southwards for 2,530 miles
(4,070 km) to the Mississippi River
Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. With its
many tributaries, the Mississippi's
watershed drains all or parts of 31 U.S.
states between the Rocky and
Appalachian Mountains and even
reaches into southern Canada. The
Mississippi ranks fourth longest and
tenth largest among the world's rivers.

10.

• In the immense region , there are main geographic
environments – the more fertile tall grass areas of Missouri
and Arkansas, and the arid short grassland regions of Texas,
Kansas and Colorado.

11.

• Kansas is a U.S. state located in
the Midwestern United States.
It is named after the Kansas
River which flows through it,
which in turn was named after
the Kansa Native American
tribe, which inhabited the area.
Kansas is the 15th most
extensive and the 33rd most
populous of the 50 United
States

12.

• Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses
most of the Southern Rocky Mountains
as well as the northeastern portion of the
Colorado Plateau and the western edge of
the Great Plains. Colorado is part of the
Western United States, Southwestern
United States, and the Mountain States.

13.

Texas is the second most populous and the
second most extensive of the 50 United States,
and the most extensive state of the 48
contiguous United States. The name, based on
the Caddo word "Texas" meaning "friends" or
"allies", was applied by the Spanish to the
Caddo themselves and to the region of their
settlement in East Texas. Located in the South
Central United States.

14.

• Before Europeans arrived in the
area, Native people were
primarily agricultural and the
region was probably sparsely
populated.

15.

• The buffalo was not the mainstay of life.

16.

• After the introduction of horses and guns, the buffalo became the
dominant leans of subsistence and populations living on or near the
Plains borders moved out onto the Plains to hunt.

17.

• Buffalo numbered more than 25 million during much of the
nineteenth century and they migrated annually to the West and
North in the spring, and to the East and South in the fall
• Many Native people followed the herds.

18.

• Numerous other animal species shared
their way of life – antelopes,
pronghorns, deer, bears, and all sorts
of small animals and birds.

19.

• There is evidence of a drought occurring during 1500 A.D.
when many changes in life occurred.

20.

• Great Plains of North America has always been and will be the
place attracts many tourists. This is an unforgettable place for
its surprising beauty.