Glossary > Economy > derived demand. derived demand. Demand that arises or is defined indirectly from some other Demand or underlying behavior; e.g., demand for foreign currency is derived from demand for foreign goods, bonds, etc., while demand for import of a homogeneous good is derived from domestic demand and supply. derived demand. InvestorGuide.com.
The Plains Indians traditionally lived on the Great Plains of the United States and Canada. The Great Plains is a vast grassland at the center of North America, reaching from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River and from southern Canada to the Rio Grande in the U.S. state of Texas.
The Common Name for the Interior Plains region is the Prairies. The Interior Plains were covered by shallow seas. Sediments from the Canadian Shield and Western Cordillera were kept in the seas for over millions of years. Eventually the sediments were compressed by the layers into sedimentary rock. Some bodies of water that are in the Interior Plains region is the Saskatchewan River, Lake Winnipeg, Great Slave Lake and Great Bear Lake. In the North is Tundra which is a treeless area where the ground is always frozen.