Describe the great plains, dividing into physicalgraphic regions
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Great Plains High, extensive region of grassland in central North America. The Great Plains extend from the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, through w central USA to Texas. The plateau slopes down and e from the Rocky Mountains.
The Great Plains, as defined in Nevin M. Fenneman's classic work, Physiography of Western United States (1931), is a distinct physiographic region that lies between the Rocky Mountains to the west and the Canadian Shield, Central Lowlands, and Gulf Coastal Plain regions to the east, and stretches from the Canadian Prairies in the north to the Edwards Plateau in Texas. Although broadly described as a low relief part of the North American interior, the Plains landscape is complex and diverse and owes its origin to a variety of geologic processes, with specific subregions dominated by fluvial, eolian, volcanic, or glacial landforms. This diversity is best discussed with reference to traditionally recognized subregions.