Great Plains Winds Doing Less Damage / FarmsceneWASHINGTON (AP) - Wind damage to land in the Great Plains is down sharply from a year ago, according to surveys by the Agriculture Department.U.S. NewspapersTHE JOURNAL RECORD
C In the 1920s, wheat farmers on the Great Plains (大平原) were making a lot of money.This made many other people want to be farmers, too. But no one tried to stop the farmers from plowing almost all the land and cutting down most of the trees.Still, everything was fine until 193...
根据第三段中的“causing many people to get sick""and farm animals died without food"以及“The Great Plains became known as the Dust Bowl.”可知,沙尘暴使得人们生病(A 项),动物因为没有食物而死亡(C项),大平原变成了尘暴区(D项),但文中并未提到田地受到污染。故选B。
US utility Great Plains Energy Inc (NYSE:GXP) will buy the output of 444 MW of wind farms in Kansas under off-take deals with EDP Renovaveis SA (ELI:EDPR) and NextEra Energy (NYSE:NEE). EDPR's Maple Ridge wind farm in the US. Source: EDPR. License: All rights reserved. In a ...
英文: The hardest-hit area is a swath of the Great Plains from Texas to South Dakota, known as Tornado Alley. 中文: 美国遭受龙卷风袭击最严重的地区是大草原的龙卷风行迹,从德克萨斯州一直延伸到南达科塔州,也就是所谓的龙卷风道。更详细...
Hull may be a harbinger of a drier future on the northern Plains. The town is one of many in the area whose groundwater has been contaminated by farm chemicals. Hull is one of 15 towns and five rural water systems, including South Dakota's biggest city, Sioux Falls, that have hitched ...
Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) supply a substantial portion of warm-season rainfall to the Great Plains of North America, and they are responsible for severe weather and flooding across the central United States. However, little is known about past
Playas are mostly small, ephemeral, recharge wetlands that are the lowest point of their own watershed. They are distributed throughout the semiarid western Great Plains, USA. Playas are biodiversity hotspots and are a primary source of recharge to the High Plains Aquifer. There are two hypothe...
2020). In the northern and central regions of the Great Plains, shrub invasion has largely been driven by a combination of shelter belt planting (e.g., trees and shrubs planted to block wind and provide livestock shelter) and widespread disruption of fire and grazing disturbances that once ...
Landowners throughout the Southern Great Plains use a number of terms such as “ranch,”“farm,”“homeplace,” or “place” to refer to the land they own. We based our sense of place questions on the prompt “My place…” because “place” is an inclusive and commonly understood term ...