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Lessons: Great Plains, Western Mountains


Deserts

Great Plains

Where are the great plains located?

The great plains run through the middle of North


America.

What is the importance of the great plains?

The great plains provide a constant food source to all of


Northern America to feed the population and with
enough food to trade to other countries for food and
aid, so in other words, it keeps the country’s food stock
full along with helping it economically.

How are the great plains suitable for


agriculture(planting)?

It is suitable for agriculture for 2 main reasons.


1: The great plains soil is nutrient rich, so for that, it
produces a lot of crops.
2: Because the great plains are located in the middle of
Northern America, its temperature is temperate
(Mediocre) that type of temperature gives a solid
amount of rain, not above or below average. And with
nutrient rich soil along with nice temperature and
enough water comes a lot of crops.

What are other events that happen in


Northern America?
When Northern America or any country in it
experiences less or no rainfall, it is called a drought,
droughts can kill crops, and that’s a serious event that
needs precaution from all countries in Northern
America.

How are droughts so dangerous?

Droughts (a long period of time without rainfall) is


dangerous for a lot more reasons than you expect, most
people would say that there is no water to feed humans
nor crops, that’s true but there is another answer, when
there is no water the plant can’t stay fresh, so it dries
up, when it dries up humans must remove it
completely, that is what the people in the 1930’s
thought they thought that it was supposed to help hold
the soil, but that eventually led to soil erosion, soil
erosion is when all air and all water is removed from
the soil gradually, and that includes nutrients being
removed from the soil. And that made the plains turn
into a dust bowl, the way Northern America created a
comeback is by taking use in the lots of winds in the
Dustbowls which then helped restore the great plains.

What happened to all the removed prairie


grass?

All the grass was replaced by corn, wheat and farms


that consist of other grains, those farms helped with
commercial agriculture, aka the business of selling
produced crops.

Important Rivers

A few important rivers Missouri and the Mississippi


transport products such as food, aids etc. from the
Great Plains to the low land areas (areas that do not
complete 200 m above sea level). Grains are shipped
from the Canadian plains which is later moved by the
rails towards the Atlantic Ocean and finally by
cargo/ship in St Lawrence’s River.
What other importance are there to the great
plains?

Another thing the great plains provide for Northern


America is energy and oil, they get oil around the south
of the Great Plains also known as Kansas to Texas,
Texas has a lot of oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico.

Are there any downsides to trying to find oil in


the Gulf of Mexico?

Yes, since there is a layer of salt beneath the oil itself,


so digging a little bit under and bypassing the salt in a
quick manner will result in an earthquake, and it isn’t
any earthquake, it’s an underwater earth quake which
can lead to tsunamis, and not only that, lets say no
earth quake happened, there will still be a huge
explosion which will harm the people that are getting
oil, this harms the economy and the wild life.
Questions

What are some importance of the Great


Plains?

Where are the Great Plains located?

What is something workers have to do


with precaution in the oil fields in the
Gulf of Mexico?

True or False

The Great Plains provide only


sustainable energy.
Western Mountains and Deserts

Introduction: Mountains and high plateaus


cover most of the western part of the United
States of America and Canada, these
landforms are natural barriers to the western
part of the country, this offers a lot of
resources in some specific areas.

Landforms and Climate:

To put it shortly, the main landform of the


west is the cordillera, what is a cordillera you
ask? A cordillera is a group of mountain ranges
that are parallel to each other, in Northern
America, the cordillera consists of the Rocky
Mountains and the Sierra Nevadas.

In between the huge mountains is something


called the Great Basin, A basin is a depression
of land, so it basically is a hole, but that hole is
between 2 mountains which are parallel to
each other think of it like 2 sticks and between
those 2 sticks is a hole, it’s basically a dessert,
with all the details you know about deserts, its
dry, and has little to no rainfall and plant life.

Canyons are deep steep sided valleys formed


when rivers cut through soft rocks, the most
known canyon is the
Grand Canyon, which is in
the southwest of the US,
(keep in mind that all
structures/mountains and
all those physical are usually found in the west
like north west and south west.)
Something about the Great Basin which is kind
of different than other desserts is that it is
warm, as you know deserts are scorching hot,
and another thing is that its dry usually and
the only moist air comes from the east (The
Pacific Ocean) towards the mountains of the
cordillera, so basically, the cold air is supposed
to go to the basin, but it goes to the
mountains, cuz we know that the higher you
are the colder the temperature gets, but for
the mountains in the east, the same air
eventually comes but it goes to the land of the
east which is usually dry, the effect of cold air
turning to dry air is called the rain shadow
effect.

Mountains help since they have a lot of


minerals but it is usually dangerous since a
small rock can lead to lots of deaths, but there
is a safer way, which is going to the great basin
and getting the important minerals by mining
them.

Thanks

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