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Bookmark or Share- Great Plains | Map, Facts, Definition, Climate, & CitiesGreat Plains, vast high plateau of semiarid grassland that is a major region of North America. It lies between the Rio Grande in the south and the delta of the Mackenzie River at the Arctic Ocean in the north and between the Interior Lowland and the Canadian Shield on the east and the Rocky Mountains on the west.
- Great Plains summary | BritannicaGreat Plains, Continental slope of central North America. It stretches from the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Mexico border in the south to the Mackenzie River delta along the Arctic Ocean in the north and from the Interior Lowlands and the Canadian Shield in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west.
- Landform - National Geographic SocietyVocabulary. A landform is a feature on Earth 's surface that is part of the terrain. Mountains, hills, plateaus, and plains are the four major types of landforms. Minor landforms include buttes, canyons, valleys, and basins. Tectonic plate movement under Earth can create landforms by pushing up mountains and hills.
- Explore Nature in the Great Plains | The Nature ConservancyThe Greatest of All Plains. Welcome to flyover country, where it's anything but plain. You've been over it, but it's time to take a closer look. The Great Plains is North America's Serengeti; home to elk, bison, prairie chickens and some of our important wild places like the Ozarks, the Mississippi River, the Badlands and the Tallgrass Prairie.
- Plains Information, Facts, and Photos | National GeographicPlains. Plains are present in many regions around the world and can hide a tumultuous geography beneath their level surface. Broad and flat, plains are well named. Some appear when glaciers...
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