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| 5.1 World's Largest Prairie |
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| -North AMerican plains are the --------- |
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| -A plain within the temperate zone that is covered by grasses;name comes from the French word meaning meadow; has been called "sea of grass" |
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| 5.3 Prairie's extreme weather |
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| - in the winter the prairies of the Great Plains are extremely cold; in summer it is hot and there is drought |
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| -the dried up plants that break off their roots and and roll across the plain |
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| -one of the most important prairie animals; there once was millions if them taht lived in vast underground towns that stretched endlessly across the prairies |
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| 5.6 Bison (American bison) |
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| -most important animal to the Indians of the plains;largest land animal of the western hemisphere |
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| A mountain range wich the Indins called BLACK HILLS. |
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| A region wich the Indians called MAKO SICA,meaning ''bad lands.'' |
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| It contain's rich deposits of ironore. |
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| THE chief tributary of the MISSISSIPPI, is the second longest river in NORTH AMERICA. |
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| THE world's largest gulf. |
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| SOURCE of an important Atlantic current,the GULF STREAM. |
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