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Grasslands
By: Grant Paulsen, Ryan Foy, and Lauren Dawson
Location
Climate
Tropical grasslands are warm year round, but
usually have a dry and a rainy season.
Temperate grasslands which average between
10 and 30 inches of rain per year, have shorter
grasses, and have two seasons, a growing
season and a dormant season.
Terrain
• Grasslands can be flat and hilly. They have
layers which include topsoil, mole,
wormtunnel, bedrock, fungus, mite, and
nematode. The layers represent the way that
soil and grass are formed in the grassland
biome.
Flora
• Most of the plant life in the grasslands are grasses. They
include Blue Grama, Buffalo grass, Big Blue stem, switch
grass and Little Blue Stem just to name a few. The tall grasses
will grow where rainfall is about 30 inches a year. The Big
Blue stem and switch grass can grow 7 feet tall. The little blue
stem and needle grass types grow up to 4 feet high. In the
Rocky Mountains, buffalo grass and blue grama grow
between 4 and 18 inches tall. There are 23 species of plants
per square yard in the grassland. The stems and leaves of all
plants are made up of chloroplasts.
Fauna
• The prairie dog, barn owl, and gray wolf are some
important animals found in the Grasslands. They all
hunt and are active at night, which makes them
nocturnal animals. The prairie dog has adapted to
the grasslands by living in towns. The gray wolf
survives in packs, and the barn owl makes its home
in hollow trees, barns, belfries, and abandoned
buildings.
• Lions live in groups on the grasslands, called Prides,
and are the only cats that do this.