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What is the nickname for the Great Plains?
The Treeless Wasteland The Great American Desert Bread Basket Tornado Alley
Why is topsoil so good for growing crops?
Topsoil is good for growing crops because it is rich in nutrients, organic matter, and beneficial microorganisms. These components help provide essential elements for plant growth, improve soil structure, and enhance water retention capabilities, leading to healthy and productive crop growth.
Does the Great Plains have fertile soil true or false?
True. The Great Plains region in the United States is known for its fertile soil, which is conducive for agriculture. This soil, formed by the deposition of sediment from glaciers and rivers over time, is essential for growing crops such as corn, wheat, and soybeans.
How did planting the same crop over several years affect the soil in the great plains?
Planting the same crop over several years in the Great Plains depletes the soil of specific nutrients, leading to decreased soil fertility. This can result in reduced crop yields and increased vulnerability to pests and diseases. Crop rotation or the use of cover crops can help replenish nutrients and maintain soil health.
How could farmers survive years with little rainfall on the great plains?
Farmers on the Great Plains could survive years with little rainfall by practicing drought-resistant farming techniques such as planting drought-tolerant crops, using conservation tillage methods to retain soil moisture, implementing crop rotation to diversify their crops, and investing in irrigation systems to supplement water supply. Additionally, they could also purchase crop insurance to help offset losses during drought years.
Explain the Significance of corn and tobacco to the Jamestown colony?
Corn and tobacco had a great significant to Jamestown Colony. Tobacco grew better in the area than in England and corn fed the colonists.
What two crops produce in Georgia were in great demand?
cotton and tobacco
What part of Africa has great farmlans and valuable crops?
northern africa
What region of Africa is dominated by great farmland and valuable crops?
north africa
What are the three cash crops grown in the southern colonies?
1. Tobacco2. Indigo3. RiceSource: Creating America, A History of the United States :: 8th grade history bookthe 8 book rocks
What are North Carolina's natural resources?
The colony of North Carolina was on the east side of the new world, the natural resources included great planting soil, it had the best climate being a southern colony, so it had the longest growing season, the colonist grew cash crops such as sugar cane, rice, tobacco, and indigo. The southern colonies had few mountains, and quite a bit of trees. The southern colonies had the biggest amounts of land. The colony was near the ocean too.
How did tobacco impact the colonies?
Tobacco was one of the main crops grown in the Virginia Colony, so they sent it all over the place, to England and the West Indies, to earn money. They would even send it to the New England Colonies up north! Hope this helps!
Did colonial New Jersey have a lot of tobacco crops?
Yes they did, there are several websites about it if you simply do a correct google search. Small family plots were grown, the quality might not have been great, and some years it may have died, but poor farmers had no store to buy goods in most of the time, so they grew whatever they had too. It is still grown for fun as well! Also have you ever heard of Connecticut broadleaf tobacco? Its used in a huge % of cigars, and is grown north of NJ, in a colder climate.
Why did colonists settle in the Georgia colony?
People could have freedom of religion, they could have slaves, there was an abundance of cotton and great weather to grow crops like tobacco.
How was tobacco successful in Jamestown?
Tobacco was successful because of the profit it made. It could be sold for a good price to England and the colonists could grow plenty of it due to Jamestown's location (Virginia which has a great climate for growing crops.
Who created Tobacco?
It was a German scientist that produced tobacco
Why was the tinaroo dam built?
To allow farmers in the drier areas of the Atherton Tablelands and the country directly to the west of the Great Dividing Range along the Walsh River to grow crops. At the time the focus was on tobacco along with some other crops, with the failure of tobacco it is now general agricultural use. The secondary use of the dam was to supply a regulated flow to the Barron Falls Power Station near Kuranda.
