Types of Plains
Australia Plains is a small town in the Regional Council of Goyder in South Australia. The post office, school and church have all closed. The current boundaries for the Bounded Locality were established in August 2000.
The Canterbury Plains is an area of braided rivers and pastoral perfection between the Southern Alps and the Pacific Ocean. As flat as a billiard table, the plains are a remarkable sight from the air - a patchwork of agricultural activity that ranges from grazing grass and wheat to herbs and sunflowers.
Prairies and steppes are types of plains, and the archetype for a plain is often thought of as a grassland, but plains in their natural state may also be covered in shrublands, woodland and forest, or vegetation may be absent in the case of sandy or stony plains in hot deserts.
The Great Plains (sometimes simply "the Plains") is the broad expanse of flat land (a plain), much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie in the United States and east of the Rocky Mountains in the U.S. and Canada.
The plain is the western part of the Northern Plain in Pakistan formed by the Indus River and its tributaries. The plain is extensively farmed for wheat, rice sugarcane and Cotton. The high plain of the Indus Plain is also called Pothohar Plateau and is located near the foothills of Himalayas (e.g. Margalla Hills).
Kantō Plain Map of Kantō Plain; Tokyo Bay is visible below center of picture. The Kantō Plain (関東平野 Kantō heiya) is the largest plain in Japan, and is located in the Kantō region of central Honshū.
The Khuzestan Plain is the relatively flat region of Iran where the Khuzestan province and the cities of Ahvaz, Susa and Abadan are located. It is the largest plain in Iran and one of the richest agricultural areas in the world. It is irrigated by several big rivers such as Karun and Karkheh.
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Nullarbor is a biogeographic region under the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) and the Nullarbor Plains Xeric Shrubland ecoregion of the World Wildlife Fund. Vegetation in the area is primarily low saltbush and bluebush scrub. A large part of the Nullarbor Plain is now a National Park.
An extensive, relatively level area of land. Plains are present on all continents except Antarctica and are most often located in the interior regions. Because they can occur at almost any altitude or latitude, plains can be humid and forested, semiarid and grass-covered, or arid.
A plateau is a flat space in or on top of mountains, generally lesser mountains. There may be several plateaus (“steps”) leading up a mountainwide. Plains are a completely different (and far larger) phenomenon, unconnected to mountatin-building. Prairies are long stretches of mostly flatlands.
Earth’s topography is made up of many different types of landforms. ... Valleys, Canyons and Caves. ... while valleys on plains have shallow slopes and wider channels.