The Badlands of South Dakota

OBJECTIVES: 1. Describe the landscape and climate of the

Badlands millions of years ago2. Define erosion and describe the way it changes

the land3. Define prarie and describe the types of life that

live there4. Explain why the climate of the Badlands has

changed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVn_hPLK9Rg 1:34 General video about dinosaurs

Sue: The most complete skeleton of a T Rex ever found; Discovered in the Badlands by Sue Hendrickson and named after her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fm1mL1Vn2A 11:40 sec. About the discovery of Sue

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Erosion, let us take a good look at those bones!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-ULcVdeqgE Bill Nye explains erosion

Erosion is the wearing away of rock by water and wind.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Monument is carved into the Black Hills of South Dakota Four faces are presidents: George Washington, Thomas

Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln George Washington’s head is 60 feet high The monument was completed in1941. It took 14 years to

carve.

Mount Rushmore

The Badlands http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brZzLyzaXbA

Located in South Dakota Landforms are sharp and jagged Deep gullies, or long narrow ditches have been cut into the

landscape Very dry, little plant or animal life Native American named it “badlands” because it was so

hard to cross

The Prarie

A prarie is an area where grasses grow well, but trees are rare. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMDZ5GTQKhQ 2:45Video of the tall grass prarie