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A S I A
north-south barrier, a local wind ‘Chi-
nook’ blows here.
ICELAND
Wainwright Axel
Wales Heiberg I ( D E N M A R K )
Nome Kotzebue BEAUFORT Parry Is Sverdrup Ellesmere Flora and Fauna
Is
SEA I. Upernavik
Nunivak I Nulato Melville Bathurst
I
Bethel Holy Cross Banks I Devon I B a f f i n Unmmannaq Prairies are practically treeless. Based on
A L A S K A Fort Yukon I Somerset B a y Ilulissat
Fairbanks Circle Prince of I Disko I Qasigiannguit
( U. S. A. ) Inuvik Wales I
Victoria availability of water, the plants found in
Anchorage I
Seward Valdez Dawson Nuuk
Fort Good Hope Kugluktuk
Kodiak I Y U K O N
Cordova Port Radium Prince Charles I the area are different.
T E R R I T O R Y
Foxe
Whitehorse N O R T H W E S T Basin Iqaluit
Skagway T E R R I T O R I E S Southampton I
Juneau Fort Simpson Yellowknife Hudson Strait Where water is available, trees such as
Sitka Chesterfield Inlet Coats I LABRADOR
Hay River Mansel I Ungave SEA
Fort Nelson Bay willows, alders and poplars grow. Where
B R I T I S H Nain
C O L U M B I A Hopedale
Prince Rupert
Queen Charlotte Churchill H u d s o n
Is Kemano Dawson Creek B a y Schefferville Happy Valley- rainfall is above 50 cm, farming is
Belcher I
Prince George A L B E R T A Lynn Lake Fort Severn Goose Bay
James St. John's
Vancouver I Edmonton Prince Albert M A N I T O B A Bay Newfoundland Cape Race practiced as the soil is fertile. The main
Sept-lles Gulf of
Vancouver Calgary SASKATCHEWAN
Saskatoon Moosonee St Lawrence St. Pierre &
Miquelon
Victoria Lethbridge EDWARD I (FRANCE)
PR.
Cape Breton I
Olympia Seattle O N T A R I O Chibougamau Charlottetown crop here is maize. The other crops that
WASHINGTON Winnipeg Dartmouth
Portland Spokane N O R T H Thunder Bay Quebec Saint John
Salem M O N T A N A D A K O T A MAINE Halifax are grown in this area include potatoes,
Eugene Helena MINNESOTA Sault Ste Marie OTTAWA Montreal Augusta
O R E G O N Billings Bismarck Duluth Sudbury VERMONT Concord New York - Gibraltor
Medford Boise St. Paul M I C H I G A N Montpelier NH MA
I D A H O Pierre Minneapolis WISCONSIN Toronto Albany Boston soyabean, alfa-alfa and cotton.
N Y
Providence
S O U T H
W Y O M I N G D A K O T A Milwaukee Lansing Buffalo Hartford CO RH
Sioux Falls Madison Detroit PN New York
Sacramento Carson City Cheyenne I O W A Chicago Harrisburg Trenton
San Francisco Salt Lake City N E B R A S K A ILLINOIS O H I O NJ
N E V A D A Lincoln Des Moines Indianapolis Columbus Annapolis Dover Areas where rainfall is very little or
Denver WEST DE
Fresno U T A H Springfield VIRGINIA WASHINGTON D.C.
C O L O R A D O Topeka INDIANA ML
Las Vegas Pueblo K A N S A S Jefferson City Charleston Richmond New York - Cape Town
Bakersfield CALIFORNIA Frankfort V I R G I N I A unreliable, short and sparse grasses are
U N I T E D S T A T E S O F A M E R I C A NORTH
K E N T U C K Y
Los Angeles A R I Z O N A Santa Fe MISSOURI Nashville C A R O L I N A Bermuda
(U.K.)
Albuquerque Amarillo Oklahoma ARKANSAS T E N N E S S E E Raleigh
S O U T H
San Diego Mexicali Phoenix City Memphis C A R O L I N A
O K L A H O M A
Tijuana N E W Little Rock Birmingham N O R T H found. These areas are suitable for cattle
M E X I C O Wichita Falls Atlanta Columbia
Tucson Fort Worth Dallas Jackson Montgomery Savannah
El Paso GEORGIA A T L A N T I C
Ciudad Juarez M I S S I S S I P P I ALABAMA
Guadalupe I T E X A S L O U I S I A N A Jacksonville rearing. Large cattle farms are called
Hermosillo Austin Baton Rouge O C E A N
San Antonio Houston New Orleans Tampa
P A C I F I C
Chihuahua Tallahassee F L O R I D A ranches. These are looked after by
St. Petersburg
Corpus Christi BAHAMAS S A R G A S S O
Torreon Miami S E A
Matamoros G u l f o f Florida Strait NASSAU
Gulf of Califormia
La Paz Monterrey Turks & Caicos Is.
O C E A N
Culiacan M e x i c o (U.K.) Puerto sturdy men called cowboys.
Rico
(U.S.A)
C U B A DOMINICAN San Juan
REPUBLIC
Tahiti - San Francisco REFERENCES Honolulu - Panama Revilla Gigedo Is Guadalajara Leon Queretaro Puebla Compeche Merida JAMAICA PORT-AU-PRINCE DOMINGO
HAITI
SANTO
Gulf of
KINGSTON
MEXICO CITY
S E A
BELIZE
ML _
DE _ Maryland Los Angeles - Valparalso Acapulco Oaxaca BELMOPAN New Orleans- Colon C A R I B B E A N
Delaware
NJ _ New Jersey HONDURAS
CO _ Connecticut Los Angeles - Panama GUATEMALA CITY TEGUCIGALPA Colon - New York
RH _ Rhode Island GUATEMALA Colon - Gibraltor
SAN SALVADOR
MA _ Massachusetts EL SALVADOR NICARAGUA
NH _ New Hampshire MANAGUA
NY _ New York
_ San Francisco - Cape Horn Colon S O U T H
PN Pennsylvania SAN JOSE PANAMA CITY
COSTA RICA
PANAMA A M E R I C A
Gulf of
Panama
North America
the Rocky Mountains in the West and the
Great Lakes in the East.
g The prairies in the USA are drained by the
Soybean
tributaries of Mississippi and the Canadian
prairies are drained by the tributaries of
Saskatchewan Rivers.
Climate
Since the prairies are located in the heart of a
continent, the climate is of continental type with
extreme temperatures. The summers are warm,
with temperatures of around 20°C and winters
are very cold with temperatures of around –20°C
being recorded in Winnipeg, Canada. In winters,
a thick blanket of snow covers this region.
Alfa-alfa
It rains moderately in this region and is ideal for
the growth of grass. Due to the absence of the
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