Prairie Quiz: questions and answers
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1. What is the Latin word for "prairie"?
Pratum
2. How did the North American Prairies formation start?
The Rocky Mountains created a rain shadow
3. Prairie in North America is usually split into:
3 groups
4. What is the Southern Canadian agricultural and climatic region known as?
Palliser
5. Which kind of prairie has a good drainage system?
Mesic
6. Prairie land that has never been plowed known as:
Virgin prairie
7. Which kind of prairies has excellent farming soil?
Wet
8. Which one is the most endangered type of prairie?
Mesic
9. What was the main hunted animal of the prairies?
Plains bison
10. Who developed a steel moldboard plow in 1837?
John Deere