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The Prairies of North America stretch from Texas (USA) is the South to Alberta and Saskatchewan (Canada) in the North. These temperate grasslands are to the east of the Rocky Mountains. These areas have flat to gently rolling hilly land. They are treeless areas except for poplars and wallows in river valleys or at places where water is found in abundance. In the USA these all drained by the tributaries of the Mississippi river in Canada by the tributaries of the Saskatchewan River. The Prairies are regions of long grasses. The soil is rich in humus, it is dark, fertile and is known as chernozem soil. The Veld is a Dutch word, that means 'a field' these grasslands occupy the eastern part of the plateau. These rolling plateaus vary in height from 600 meters to 1000 meters. The Velds are bounded by the Drakensburg Mountains is the east Kalahari Desert in the west. Low sedimentary range called the Witwatersrand runs across the Velds. The Limpopo and Orange rivers drain the area. On the basis of their elevations, the Velds can be divided into: (i) Highveld, (ii) Midlevel; and (iii) Low veld.
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