Interior lowlands

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Landscape

Landscape

• Many broad river valleys and grassy hills

• The vegetation is deciduous trees and evergreens

• The elevation gently rolls downward from west to east. The height of the land changes from 600 to 1500 meters above sea level.

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Info-Main Characteristics

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It often has severe weather for example droughts, floodings, tornadoes, hail, dust storms, blizzards, and ice storms.

Upland habitats are cold clear and rocky whose rivers are fast-flowing in mountainous areas. Lowland habitats are warm with slow-flowing rivers. Water is frequently colored by sediment and organic matter.

The Interior Plains is a large region with fairly flat land and low, light elevated hills. It has areas of Grassland, wooded parkland and large northern forests. The landscape of the Interior Plains has been mainly shaped by the forces of erosion.

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Wooded Parkland

Rivers (fast/slow-flowing)

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Grassy Hills

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Agriculture

-Grassland and shrubland make up the largest portion of the Interior Plains within the United States, at 44.4 percent. The western margin is mainly shortgrass prairie dominated by blue grama and buffalograss. Prairies on the eastern side of the Interior Plains are dominated by tall grasses varieties including big bluestem and switchgrass. Land used for cattle-grazing is included under this classification, which sustains nearly 50 percent of all United States beef cattle.

-In Canada, provinces located within the Interior Plains produce nearly 60 percent of all beef cattle.

- Other significant crops produced in the region include barley, corn, cotton, sorghum, soybeans, and canola.

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Fishing

Missouri, Ohio and Mississippi River. For selling on the market due to the consumption being high in comparison to other parts of the US

Canada has rich fishing grounds off both the Arctic Ocean and Lakes such as Lake Winnipeg. Here, you can fish for largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, spotted bass, channel catfish, flathead catfish, blue catfish...

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Natural Resource Gathering

Natural resources gathering

Natural Resources that are found here include oil, natural gas, coal, forests, and farmland.

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Buffalo Grass

Blue Grama

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Largemouth Bass

Spotted bass

Coal

Oil

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Vegetation

vegetation

Up north is tundra, this area has little tree's, and becomes easily frozen

Down south there are evergreen trees, and in the prairies tall grasses, some of which can grow as high as a person.

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Geomorphology

Geomorphology

• 2.6 million years ago at the start of the pleistocene epoch Laurentide ice sheet began to spread upwards to cover North America down to the northern great plains.
• The Laurentide Ice Sheet had a large influence on the morphology of the Interior Plains during the end of the Pleistocene. beak

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Tectonic plate formation

• The interior lowlands were formed due to the collision of the North American and the Pacific plates
• The land was pushed upwards during the collision into tall mountains