PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Table of Contents
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Minnesota's climate varies,in winter the average is 2°F
In the summer the average climate is 78°F.
Average annual precipitation - Average
Northwest: 19 inches/year
Southeast: 34 inches/year
A fast-moving and severe blizzard hits North Dakota and Minnesota, killing 151 people, on this day in 1941.
A tornado Hit St. Cloud (24 deaths); Sauk Rapids (37 deaths) and a wedding party at Rice (11 deaths)
Minnesotan climate can be very cold or very warm.
The young drift plants spread over the south of Minnesota and hug its western border with the Dakotas. As the glaciers melted into the region the left fertile soil called drift.
Thick forest once covered more than %70 of Minnesota. The unforested areas of Minnesota include the southcentral and southwestern regions, which were covered in a tall grass prairie they extended all along the western edge of the state as far north as Canadian border southern east Minnesota and large spots of Minnesota.
Resources
Minnesota grows sugar beans oats barley corn soy beans wheat... Farms dropped for100,000 to 87,000. Minnesota is first in mining iron ore since 1901.
Glossary
Precipitation-how much rain each year.
Glaciers-large sheets of ice.
Climate-average tempature over a long period of time.