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Animals
Prairie Plants
The Great Plains
Ecosystem Events
Food Web
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An animal that roams the Prairie in a pack and hunts Ground Squirrel and other animals for prey.
What is the coyote?
100
Tall Prairie Plant eaten by Bison.
What is Big Bluestem?
100
Rocks and rivers cut through land with the force of water weathering and pushing rocks over a long time.
What shaped the great Plains?
100
Wind carried the soil away in thick dust clouds.
What caused the Dust Bowl?
100
The Plains Pocket Gopher is this when it is eaten by a Red Tailed Hawk.
What is prey?
200
Early americans hunted this for food and clothing
What is a bison?
200
This plant has purple flowers that attract bees.
What is Pale Purple Coneflower?
200
They are located in North America.
Where are the great plains?
200
This natural event can cause prairie fires.
What are lightning strikes?
200
An animal that eats another animal is this.
What is a predator?
300
Eats Ground Squirrels, gophers, and other birds.
What is the Red Tailed Hawk?
300
This prairie plant has yellow flowers. It grows on the prairie and in the shrub layer of the woodland.
What is Goldenrod?
300
The North border extends into Canada. The East border is the Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas Rivers. In the West, the Rocky Mountains are the border. In the South the Great Plains reach past the border of Mexico.
What are the boundaries of the Great Plains?
300
Hunted by native americans and settlers almost to extinction.
What are bison?
300
This animal eats meat.
What is a carnivore?
400
This animal was brought to US by Spanish Explorers and helped hunters catch bison.
What are horses?
400
Settlers cleared prairie plants to cultivate crops for food. This is still done today, especially in Illinois.
What is agriculture?
400
These people came in wagons to farm the land and settle in the West.
What are settlers?
400
This helps the soil by killing unwanted plants. Grasses survive because they have long roots.
What is fire? or How does fire help the prairie?
400
Bison and deer eat plants, so they are known as this type of animal.
What is an herbivore?
500
We can use their horns to fight and drink water, and we can eat the meat and make pillows and clothing with their hides.
Why did humans kill bison?
500
Insects eat these, so farmers use toxic chemicals to control them.
What are crops?
500
The Great Plains once had mostly this type of plant that survives the wind and drought with its long roots.
What are tall grasses?
500
Climate and humans affected the ecosystem. Humans killed bison that ate grasses and cleared land to grow crops.
What happened to the Great Plains?
500
A healthy ecosystem has producers and consumers that keep this in balance. When one part of this dies off, other animals move or die.
What is the food web?