Chapter Notes and Summary
• Prairies are temperate grassland found in North America. They are bound by Rocky Mountains in West and Great Lakes in East.
• It has continental type of climate with warm summers and very cold winters.
• Climate favours cultivation of crops here.
• ‘Chinook’ a local wind blows here.
• Prairies are practically tree less. Large scale farming with modern technology is done here.
• prairies are known as ‘Granaries of world’ because surplus wheat is produced here.
• Temperate grasslands of South Africa are called Velds.
• Here summers are short and warm and winters are cool and dry.
• Sheep and cattle rearing are main occupation of people. Angora goats and Merino sheep are famous breeds.
• Dairy and mixed farming, gold and diamond mining are widely practised in many parts of South Africa.
• Grasslands make up almost a quarter of total land surface.
• world’s grasslands are divided into two categories those that occur in temperate region and those that occur in tropical region.