Tall grass prairies
Shortgrass prairies
prairies
prairie definitions
Prairie Adaptations
100
Eastern Great Plains
Where are tall grass prairies found?
100
Western Great Plains
What is the location of Shortgrass Prairie?
100
Latin word meaning meadow
What is "partum?"
100
original or native to the prairies of IL
What is indigenous?
100
prairie that holds a lot of water in the soil
What are wet prairies?
200
True
True or False tall grass prairies are thick and lush grasslands
200
short plants-less than 10 inches tall
What is the typical height of a shortgrass prairie?
200
An ecosystem with a diverse mixture of grasses and forbs
What is a prairie?
200
Rich, scattered patches of trees completely surrounded by prairie
What are prairie groves?
200
prairie that is moist through most of the growing season
What is a mesic prairie?
300
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Tall plants, typically ___' tall or more
300
Sparse grassland-not thick
What is the thickness of Short grass Prairie grass?
300
soft stems and narrow leaves and are dominant plants in a prairie
What are grasses?
300
thick layers of grass and soil held together by plant roots usually about one foot deep
What is sod?
300
prairie that includes the hill prairies and sand prairies where the soil drains rapidly
What is a dry prairie?
400
tall grass prairies began to expand immensely after this
What is the last glacier receding from the midwest?
400
Prairies located further West
What is short grass prairies?
400
plants with soft stems and broad leaves, like wildflowers
What are forbs?
400
Introduced species brought to a new area. Often out compete other living things causing the biodiversity of an ecosystem to decline
What are invasive species?
400
capable of growing numerous plants
What is the definition of fertile?
500
170 million acres
What is the amount of North American prairies?
500
Overlapping area where characteristics of both short and long grass prairies are found
What is Mixed grass prairie?
500
a community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
What is an ecosystem?
500
the variety of living things in an ecosystem
What is biodiversity?
500
the plant protects itself from this with a special coating
What is desiccation?
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