NORTH AMERICAN REGIONS

V. Central Plains b. Nebraska to Alberta

Interior Lowlands

Key
  

RedRed-Term to define and remember YellowYellow-Place to locate and remember GreenGreen-Resource to know and remember Bright Green-Agricultural product Green(crop) to remember White, Blue and Brown-Narration to Brownhelp understanding

Omaha, Nebraska
stockyard

Omaha So . . .

what day

can you

cruise?

Nebraska


 

  

You will now see a series of fourteen pictures of Nebraska. They are arranged from east to west. You are to observe and write down the changes in the physical and cultural landscape as you travel from east to west. No notes will be provided. The pictures will be seen three times. You may discuss them when finished.

Nebraska

The beginning The East

Nebraska 2

Nebraska 3

Nebraska 4

Nebraska 5

Nebraska 6

Nebraska 7

Nebraska 8

Nebraska 9

Nebraska 10

Nebraska 11

Nebraska 12

Nebraska 13

Nebraska 14

I will show them in reverse reversefrom west to east.

When we return to this slide you will have time to discuss and then we will proceed.
We proceed.

Chicago

NEBRASKA
Omaha Denver Kansas City

IOWA

KANSAS

What is this train carrying?

Coal
Thunder River Valley, Wyoming

Strip Mines

Where are we? Mississippi River

White Heron

Urban Riverscape

This barge is being loaded with gravel. 28 locks downriver to Saint Louis

Or you could row yourselves.

Saint Paul, Minnesota Paul,

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Saint Paul

Minnesota

Capitol

Southwestern South Dakota

Note that the wordReservation Pine Ridge Indian MASSACRE has replaced another word The site of the. . . BATTLE

Modern Graves at Wounded Knee

Prairie at Wounded Knee

Prairie in the Great Plains

The way the Great Plains looked before European settlement. and in the distance

The Black Hills

Which are associated with Region VI, the Rocky Mountains.

Animals of the Plains

Prairie Dogs

Pronghorn Antelope

Custer State Park, South Dakota

The American Bison

Today we have replaced these grazers with. . .

cattle

Feed lot

Feed lots are the source of pollution.

Badlands National Park South Dakota

What kind of rock?

Soft sedimentary rocks like shale and mudstone.

How did these badlands form? Water erosion

Badlands

(1963)

North Dakota
What kind of farming is this?
Dry farming

What crop is this? wheat

North Dakota

What is this crop?

sunflowers

The Plains produce many other oilseeds Soybeans Corn Safflower

Western North Dakota

Name the National Park. Theodore Roosevelt

What kind of topography is this?

badlands

What is this thin black layer? coal

Note the soft sedimentary rock.

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Bison in the campground

Do you see why they call it Big Sky Country?

Montana

What could you raise here?

Wheat

Sunrise in Montana

NORTH DAKOTA

St. Paul Badlands National Park x Wounded Knee

What is this blue flowered crop?

Manitoba

flax

Flax is used for: Linen cloth Fine paper Linseed oil for paint Flaxseed oil for cooking

Another Oilseed

A Canadian Oilseed What is this crop?

It is an oilseed. canola

The most important crop of the Canadian plains is . . .

wheat

Lots of wheat

A typical Main Street in Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan River

Saskatchewan

And they lay very large eggs.

Actually, it is an Easter egg typical of which culture?

Ukrainian

Grain elevators along the Trans-Canada TransHighway

Whats this? canola

And these?

Hay bales

Hay is for . . . cattle

Central Alberta

What kind of topography is this? badlands

Badlands are found in the higher, drier plains.

Did you find the two people?

canola

flax

Definitions
 

Prairie a large area of high grasses Feed lot an enclosure in which cattle are fed a high calorie diet before they are slaughtered Badlands - highly eroded, soft sedimentary rock usually found in the high plains

What resource is found in this sedimentary rock?

Hint

Petroleum

What else is found in this Cretaceous sedimentary rock?

Tyrannosaurus Rex

The Royal Tyrell Museum, the best dinosaur museum, is located in Drumheller Alberta.

My Guide

With her favorite dinosaurdinosaur-Tri-Sarah-tops Tri-Sarah-

apatosaurus

struthiomimus

Dead Hadrosaurs

Feeding time at the Calgary Zoo T. Rex

Lunch

AtCalgary, of the Rockies the foot Alberta Calgary,

The largest in North America

Edmonton

Calgary

SASKATCHEWAN

Whats this? Natural Gas Flare

British Columbia

The real thing!

The Alaska Highway

Well save this for another day.

North American Regions

The Central Plains

The End