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2a: Physical features and climate of the Great Plains • Flatlands that rise gradually from east to west

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Page 1: 2a: Physical features and climate of the Great Plains Flatlands that rise gradually from east to west

2a: Physical features and climate of the Great Plains

• Flatlands that rise gradually from east to west

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2a: Physical features and climate of the Great Plains

• Land eroded by wind and water.

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2a: Physical features and climate of the Great Plains

• Low rainfall.

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2a: Physical features and climate of the Great Plains

• Frequent dust storms

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Because of new technologies, people saw the Great Plains not as a “treeless wasteland” but as a vast area to be settled.

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2a: Inventions and adaptations

• Barbed wire

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2a: Inventions and adaptations

• Steel Plows

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2a: Inventions and adaptations

• Dry farming

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2a: Inventions and adaptations

• Sod houses

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2a: Inventions and adaptations

• Beef cattle raising

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2a: Inventions and adaptations

• Wheat farming

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2a: Inventions and adaptations

• Windmills

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2a: Inventions and adaptations

• Railroads