PPT-Prairies

By Matthew and David Prairies What Is a Prairie A prairie is a long vast grassland mainly consisting of bundles of trees few hills and mountains and alive with all sorts of animals and insects. Elymus canadensis Canada wildrye 24 Covers an area rapidly selfseeds Festuca ovina sheeps fescue 624 Common on sandy soils quite drought and shade tolerant bunch grass Festuca rubra red fescue 624 Common lawn grass is quite shade and drought toleran What is a prairie? • Prairies are composed of plants that are seldom found LQRWKHUKDELWDWV7KH\DUHGH General Description: Calcareous prairies are typically small, naturally treeless areas occurring on in the uplands of central, western, and northwest Louisiana. The herbaceous flora is very diver Randy William . Widdis. University of Regina. Introduction. Introduction. two papers: . Paper #1 (Tentative Title - . From Middle Grounds to Borderland, Part One: Indigenous Peoples, Euro-North Americans and the Evolution of the International Region of the Great Plains, 1780-1870. bisonburrowing owlbobolink dickcissel dragonfly garter snake pocket gopher grasshopper meadowlark monarchbutterfly harvest mouse northern harrier red fox upland sandpiper soil organisms cricket thirte Big Blue Stem or Turkey Foot. Andropogon. . gerardii. Type: . grass. This grass is also called Turkey feet because the shape of the seed heads look like turkey feet. It is also called beard grass. The name big bluestem grass comes from the fact that this grass can grow to very big, 3 to 10 feet as a matter of fact. It blooms from June through September.. Grassland Biomes. Grass. Looking outside at grass, you don’t usually think much of it. However, grass . Feeds billions of organisms worldwide. Bread and cereal. Grains are domestic grasses. Start of many food webs. Burrowing owls are important to the . environment we have to act now.. BY LUCAS . WHY are burrowing owls . important. If burrowing owls become extinct then the animals that eat them might starve and they can become extinct too. . of Texas. And the effects of . weathering,erosion. , and deposition. Factors Affecting . Our Ecoregions. . Weathering. . – chemical and physical break down of rocks into sediment. Erosion. – the movement of sediment from one place to another. What is an ecoregion?. An ecoregion is an ecosystem that covers a large area.. Texas is grouped into six TYPES:. Coastal prairies and marshes. Plains. Prairies. Woodlands. Plateau. Desert/montane woodlands. A Tale of Two Projects. Russ Benedict, Biology Department, Central College. Lisa Schulte Moore, Dept. of NREM, Iowa State University. What is Tallgrass Prairie?. Grassland dominated by specific grasses. Can you identify these?. Graders. in the library. Alphabet. Abilene. Russell Stover Candies is in Abilene, KS. . Some factories make flower or animal food.. Dwight D. was raze in Abilene.. Buffalo. Baby buffalo can sniff really good. In spring the buffalo stampede into the river. On every trip buffalo got killed in 1868. A buffalo is the Kansas state animal.. U.S. States . M. ap Quiz. Grasslands Notes . Set up notebook for notes when done with quiz. Grasslands . More rainfall than desert, not enough for forest. 25% of Earth’s surface. Prairies, Pampas, Steppe, Savannas, . DESCRIPTION: Multiflora rose is a thorny, perennial shrub with arching stems (canes), and leaves divided into five to eleven sharply toothed leaflets. Beginning in May or June, clusters of showy, frag