Part One
The Great North American Prairie covers 1.4 million square miles and is made up of the following U.S. states; Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico. It is also made up of a few provinces in Canada including Alberta and Manitoba.
Rainfall is more common in the East than it is in the West of the prairies. Rainfall levels can reach up to 21 inches and go down to 12 inches depending on where you are within the prairie. It's also driest toward the middle/central areas of the prairie and experiences more rainfall and cooler weather towards the outside/near the mountain areas. The Great Prairie has a drought around every 30 years and was once so dry that it had been nicknamed "The Dust Bowl", and the extremely wet/moist areas of the prairie are called …show more content…
I think that the diversity of the plants has to do with keeping the environment sustainable and livable for everything that lives in it. Plants support each other, the animals in the environment, and the habitat itself.
2. Bison were a huge source of food, and were big with helping cultivate the land for crops and farming. Had they gone fully extinct, I think there would have been a lot of people suffering and starving without the support and help that Bison gave to them.
3. A grasshopper is eaten by a wild mouse on the prairie, the mouse is eaten by a bald eagle. A bumble bee pollinates a wildflower on the prairie.
4. The Native Americans were very into preserving the environment that they lived in, even if they hunted and used the resources that their environment provided them, they only ever took what they know they absolutely needed and that's all. Even when hunting for food, they made sure that it was a necessity and that every part of the animal was used as not to waste it. The Europeans were a bit different, they didn't really mind wasting and were seen as not being as respectful to their environment as they should have
The Great North American Prairie covers 1.4 million square miles and is made up of the following U.S. states; Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico. It is also made up of a few provinces in Canada including Alberta and Manitoba.
Rainfall is more common in the East than it is in the West of the prairies. Rainfall levels can reach up to 21 inches and go down to 12 inches depending on where you are within the prairie. It's also driest toward the middle/central areas of the prairie and experiences more rainfall and cooler weather towards the outside/near the mountain areas. The Great Prairie has a drought around every 30 years and was once so dry that it had been nicknamed "The Dust Bowl", and the extremely wet/moist areas of the prairie are called …show more content…
I think that the diversity of the plants has to do with keeping the environment sustainable and livable for everything that lives in it. Plants support each other, the animals in the environment, and the habitat itself.
2. Bison were a huge source of food, and were big with helping cultivate the land for crops and farming. Had they gone fully extinct, I think there would have been a lot of people suffering and starving without the support and help that Bison gave to them.
3. A grasshopper is eaten by a wild mouse on the prairie, the mouse is eaten by a bald eagle. A bumble bee pollinates a wildflower on the prairie.
4. The Native Americans were very into preserving the environment that they lived in, even if they hunted and used the resources that their environment provided them, they only ever took what they know they absolutely needed and that's all. Even when hunting for food, they made sure that it was a necessity and that every part of the animal was used as not to waste it. The Europeans were a bit different, they didn't really mind wasting and were seen as not being as respectful to their environment as they should have