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Slide 1: Precipitation,
latitude and world biomes
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Slide 2: The Grassland
Biomes of the World.
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Slide 3: Annual precipitation
in the continental US
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Slide 4: Precipitation
variability along the 100th Meridian
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Slide 5: Vegetation transect
of the continental US
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Slide 6: Grassland ecosystems
of midcontinent North America
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Slide 7: Location map
of the Great Plains and Prairies of North America
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Slide 8: The Corn Belt
in the United States
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Slide 9: Satellite image
of the central Great Plains centered on the Flint Hills of Kansas.
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Slide 10: Prairie-forest
transition/boundary: a dairy-farm region south of Greenbay, Wisconsin
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Slide 11: Revis
Hill Prairie Natural
Reserve, Mason County, Illinois
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Slide 12: Amish
Acres--a historical farm in the Tallgrass Prairie of Indiana
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Slide 13: Northern
Great Plains steppe: spring wheat harvest in North Dakota
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Slide 14: Spring-flooded
sloughs block a rural road in North Dakota
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Slide 15:
Black Hills coniferous forest, prairie and prairie dogs
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Slide 16: Chadron Hills,
Nebraska: pine ridge and shortgrass steppe
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Slide 17: SPOT
image of the Flint Hills Konza Prairie Preserve near Manhattan, Kansas
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Slide 18: The Nebraska
Sandhills: a Space Shuttle Image
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Slide 19: Dry-steppe
and high plains in eastern Nebraska
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Slide 20: Sagebrush
steppe along the Oregon Trail of western Wyoming.
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Slide 21:
Dry steppe wheatlands of the Palouse country, Pullman, Washington
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Slide 22: Southwestern
dry steppe and mesas: the Stockton Plateau, Texas
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Slide 23: Oak/juniper
savanna woodlands, Edwards Plateau, Texas Hill Country
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Slide 24:
Texas Gulf Coastal Plains: oak woodlands, savannas and marshes.
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Slide 25: Southwestern
semi-arid/arid rangelands and high plains/mountains of New Mexico
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