Importance of the Plain

Perhaps one of the most necessary and friendly ground surfaces for the installation of the human being, the plain is a flat, smooth surface, without elevations that has allowed along the history the development of crops and different economic activities essential for human survival.

The plain is the space that is most easily livable and to which human beings have adapted most quickly

When we speak of a plain, we refer to one of the territories that can be more easily inhabited by human beings. We are talking about flat territories or without elevations (or at least with very moderate elevations) in which you can easily carry out activities of agriculture, grazing, cattle raising, etc. It is also in them where most of the cities that human beings have founded throughout the planet are located.

The plain is also usually a flat and very extensive territory, which is why they are comfortable for man to occupy in many different ways. They can be low land or extensive valleys that are between

mountains and that serve as a protected space against the different types of climates. Finally, the plains can be very fertile and this helps human survival, although there are also desert and almost uninhabitable plains.

There are different types of plains that have been formed from different geographical phenomena.

How do you get to form a plain? This is a question that can be answered in many different ways, since there is no single type of flat land. While some plains are fixed and existing structures at the same altitudes of the territory, there are other plains that are the result of wind or water erosion and that result in flat territories after thousands of years of being affected by this type of erosion. At the same time, as there are also islands that are the result of volcanic action, we find plains that have been consequence of the superposition of different levels of lava that has then cooled and become a surface hard.

The importance of the plain lies in the fact that it gives many possibilities for human habitat. This is so since in any case it is much easier to live in a flat region than in that that may have irregularities or altitudes at which oxygen and other resources begin to become scarce

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