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Soil
Fauna
Flora
Water Source
Succession
100
The geological material from which soil was originally formed
What is the parent material?
100
The maximum weight of an adult male bison bull
What is 2,000 pounds?
100
The largest height tall grass will typically reach
What is 9.8 ft?
100
What we can do to help reduce flooding
What is restore the prairie?
100
The number of main factors that cause succession in the prairie
What is 3?
200
The color and texture of prairie soils
What is dark-heavy textured soils?
200
At shoulder width, how tall an adult male bison is
What is 6.5 ft?
200
2 types of grassland found in the prairie
What is Big Bluestem, Little Bluestem
, Indian Grass,
Porcupine, Grass
Green, Needle Grass
, Switch Grass
 etc.
200
The 4 watersheds
What are the Red River, Minnesota River, Missouri River, and the Des Moines River?
200
What has eliminated trees and shrubs, but also has improved wildflowers and grasses
What are fires?
300
Causes natural loss of soil
What is rainfall?
300
In general, approximately how many bison roamed the prairies of North America when Europeans first came over
What is 60 million?
300
The typical percentage of tree cover in the prairie
What is 5-11%?
300
Water is a _____ disturbance
What is periodic?
300
What has effected the way plants grow/survive
What are droughts?
400
The most important natural factor to maintain soil quality
What is wildfire?
400
How many bison were left by 1885
What is fewer than 600?
400
The percentage of original tall-grass that has been transformed to farmland
What is 99%?
400
The 4 Minnesota Prairie Water Communities
What is the Chippewa County, Lac Qui Parle County, Swift County, and Yellow Medicine County?
400
What is the reason that many plants become dormant
What are Bison (Herbivores)?
500
Keeps the prairie a perennial landscape
What is underground root systems?
500
What specific animal nests in prairie dog burrows
What is a Burrowing Owl?
500
The latin name for Big Bluestem
What is Andropogon gerardii?
500
The Nature Conservancy undertakes one of the nations largest prairie-wetland restoration
What is the Glacial Ridge Project?
500
Who the northern parts of the biome were primarily influenced by
What is the Glacial Lake Agassiz?