Grasslands

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 * //By: Molly. K and Kaitlin. B//**



__GRASSLAND SUMMARY-__
Throughout the world, grasslands are known by many different names. In North America they are known as "prairie", in Asia "steppe", in South America the "pampas" and in South Africa a "veldt".there are also three types of grasslands; which are praire ateppe, savanna. Grasslands are known for their environment full of wild things such as, animals, plants, soil, and many other great resources! Kingdom Animalia is a very important thing in grasslands. It consists of prairie dogs, red-tail-hawks, many kinds of deer, and lots more. Another kingdom that lives in grassland is, Kingdom Fungi. There are many different kinds of fungi like ballerina waxcap,field mushroom,shaggy ink cap,the golden mushroom and.Fungi live in the soil that the grassland is most famous to provide. This kindom also contains a mushroom called Pseidomonads. This mushroom grows mainly through May to September. Grasslands have many plants such as: grasses, wheat, corn, and many others. Kingdom Monera an example is the Japanese Umbrella Inky.Kingdom Protist is another big kingdom that grassland has, this has all kinds of different organisms like the (Blue Green) Algae.

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The grasslands are usually temperate.They also are very usually warm and dry which is what gives them their temperate climate.They get very little rain. They get 15 to 36 inches of rain per year.Because of their climate they have grasses all over because grasses grow really well it the temperate climate. Grasslands are in the interior of a continent and rain shadows.The grasslands have hot summers and cold winters. The tempature ranges usually -20 to 30 degrees Celsius. There are a few different variations of Grasslands Tropical Grasslands, Temperate Grasslands.

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to go to a really cool site that shows you [|where the grasslands in the world] are click here. On the map in this link, the tan color is the grasslands in the world.