What are the natural resources of the west?

Answer 1

The Western United States has many Natural Resources. The Great Plains (North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas) have an abundant water supply on the east side as well as fertile ground across most of the area. This has led to the Great Plains becoming "The Breadbasket of the World" for all the corn and wheat that is grown here.

Further west are the sand hills and the foothills of the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains - not good land for crop farming, but excellent grazing land for cattle and sheep (although sheep have been pushed into the Mountains proper during the Sheep and Cattle Wars of the 1800s). The Rocky Mountains have pristine lakes and rivers that supply water to a large portion of the United States, as well as many wilderness areas with unusual and unique features (think the Grand Canyon and Old Faithful). The mountains also have a number of valuable minerals including gold, silver and copper.

The Pacific Coast has a wide variety of seafood in the ocean, as well as bountiful fertile valleys and large temperate forests.

Answer 2

Cattle and sheep, petroleum, coal, and other minerals are all natural resources of Wyoming.

Answer 3

cotton,soil,trees,tall grass, short grass,mesquite grass and rocks

Answer 4

Natural resources in South Dakota include:water

fertile land

minerals such as gold, silver, uranium, granite

forests

Answer 5

trees,papers,sand, grains, food