Below are pictures are of prairie Landforms. Click on the images to make the prairies larger.
Bad Lands of South Dakota
A prairie is a area that is mostly flat and the main vegetation is grass. The pictures above show exactly what a lot of prairies look like. Almost all prairies grow in a temperate climate, that being a climate that is not too hot and not too cold. It may have winter months when it snows and summer months that have tolerable heat.
There are many prairies in the world that have been made in many different ways. One common way is a prairie forms of what use to be a large body of water. After the water evaporates, their is great soil for plants to grow. Wild grasses take off and cover the large area of land.
If you want to see some great prairie landforms, Iowa has the most in the United States. Many of the prairie lands of the world have been taken over by farms. You can still find many large areas of prairies in the central United States.
Some prairie landforms are overtaken by different types of forests of the world. Sometimes fires can help prevent this from happening and actually make the prairies thrive. Many park services have controlled fires to preserve the great prairies of the world.
Two of the famous prairies of the world are the Bad Lands of South Dakota and the Rolling Hills of Oklahoma. Probably the most famous Prairie is the Great Plains.
A prairie landform is a large, mostly flat area, that is covered with grass as its main vegetation.
By David Olmstead
We want pictures and location of the lanforms around the world and we need your help. Click get started button below.
In Asia, China, India, Nepal, and Bhutan are home to one of the eight wonders of the world and one of the most beautiful mountains in the world, the Himalaya Mountains also called the Himalayas. Boasting as the world’s highest and most famous mountain peak, Mt. Everest. Within the verse of the ‘Kumarsambhava’, Sanskrit […]
Nature have provided us with fascinating landforms and features. The most often adored landforms are volcanoes. Like the perfect cone structure of Mayon Volcano in the Philippines or Mount Fiji in Japan, people look at their beauty and wonder with great appreciation to nature. Volcanoes are mountains with a very disastrous nature. Their only […]
Taal Volcano is the second most active volcano found in the province of Batangas. A complex volcano in the middle of Taal Lake and is often called an island within a lake, that is an island within a lake that is on an island as well as one of the lowest volcano in the […]
Mayon Volcano is one of the active volcanoes in the Philippines. Located in the southern part of Luzon about 473 kilometers (294 miles) from Makati Business District of the Philippines, Mount Mayon is the main landmark of the Province of Albay of Bicol Region. According to local folklore, the volcano was named after Daragang […]
The global temperature and weather is to a large extent a direct result of the sun’s effect to our planet. Together with the atmosphere and the rotation of the earth on its axis. The earth on which weather moves on has its own effect on the weather. The different landforms like mountains, volcanoes, plains, and the […]
