B. Answer the following questions :
1. What do you mean by the climate of the Prairies?
2. Why are the Prairies known as the wheat basket of the world'?
3. What do you mean by ranches?
4. What does the word 'Prairie' mean?
5. What role do machines play in agricultural activities in the Prairies?
Answers
Explanation:
1. The Prairies are located in the heart of a continent. Therefore, the climate is of continental type with extreme temperatures. The summers are warm, with temperatures of around 20oC and winters are very cold with temperatures of around -20oC. ... In winters, a thick blanket of snow covers this region.
2. The soil and climate of Prairies are the most suitable for the cultivation of wheat and maize. So the production of wheat is so large that USA exports surplus wheat to other countries. Therefore, the Prairies of North America are called 'Wheat basket of the world'.
3. A ranch is an area of land, including various structures, given primarily to the practice of ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle and sheep most often applies to livestock-raising operations in Mexico, the Western United States and Western Canada, though there are ranches in other areas.
4. a prairie is a plain of grassy land without many trees. ... Prairie means grassland, and comes from the French word for "meadow." While we might describe a single meadow, we usually use prairie to describe a type of countryside.
5. That is because the prairies are huge farms and human/manual labour is very difficult as they need to plough,sow,water,fertilize and harvest the crops. so machines are useful in such conditions. ... harvesters can harvest vast amounts of crops in minutes
Explanation:
(1) The Prairies are located in the heart of continent . Therefore, the climate of the continental type with extreme temperature.The summer are warm , with temperature of around 20 degree Celsius and winter are very cold with temperatures around -20 degree Celsius.
(2) The soil and climate of Prairies are the most suitable for cultivation of wheat and maize. So the production of wheat is so large that USA exports surplus wheat to other countries.
Therefore,the Prairies of North America is called 'Wheat basket of world ,
(3) A large farm , specially in the US or Australia,where cows , horses ,sheep ,etc are kept .
(4) A very large area of flat land covered in grass with few trees .