This document provides information about the savanna grassland biome. It discusses the native plants and animals found in grasslands, including adaptations that allow them to survive. Some threats to grasslands are global warming and conversion to agriculture. The document also outlines recreational activities one can do in grasslands and notes that grasslands can be found in central parts of continents in areas with moist or dry subtropical climates.

1. SAVANNA
GRASSLAND
BY: Samuel Robinson AKA Sam &
Quinterius Neloms AKA Q

2. ANIMALS THAT LIVE IN
SAVANNAH
 The grassland has animal like……..
 American Bald Eagle
 Badger
 Bobcat
 Bumblebee
 Coyote
 Prairie Dog

3. GRASSLAND PLANTS
 Big bluestem grass
 Blue grama grass
 Milkweed
 June grass

4. BIOTIC/ABIOTIC FACT

5. WHAT ARE SOME
THREATS OF
GRASSLAND?
There are two major threats in the
grasslands. One threat is Global
warming and the other is conversion
to agriculture. When some global
temperatures rise some grasslands
with become deserts as the rainfall
patterns change.
A typical savanna fire burning
through the grass beneath the trees.

6. WHAT ARE THE NATIVE PLANTS AND
THEIR ADAPTATIONS TO LIVE THERE?
 Plants have adaptations to help them survive
(live and grow) in different areas. Adaptations
are special features that allow a plant or animal
to live in a particular place or habitat. These
adaptations might make it very difficult for the
plant to survive in a different place. This explains
why certain plants are found in one area, but not
in another. For example, you wouldn't see a
cactus living in the Arctic. Nor would you see lots
of really tall trees living in grasslands.

7. WHAT ARE THE NATIVE ANIMALS
AND THEIR ADAPTATIONS TO LIVE
THERE?
 Animals that live in Illinois prairies today are
adapted to the grassland. These adaptations of
body structure or behavior help them survive in a
prairie habitat. A few of these adaptations are:
 Some animals, such as bison, have broad, flat-
topped teeth and digestive systems especially
adapted to feed on grasses.
 Many prairie animals have front legs and paws that
allow them to burrow into the ground, where they
are protected from predators.
 Many prairie animals are adapted for nocturnal life;
that is, they are active at night.

8. EXAMPLES OF COOPERATION AND
COMPETITION BETWEEN AND
AMONG SPECIES
 When one animal eats another animals for meat
that lives in the grasslands.
 When an animal eats the plants in the grasslands
for food.
 Cooperation between the animals in the
grasslands for an example is when the elephants
eats the trees and shrubs to help the grass to
grow.
 Animals working together to kill another animal
for meat.

9. GRASSLAND'S RECREATIONAL
ACTIVITIES
 Some recreational activities to do in the
grasslands are hiking, camping, biking, ridding
horses hunting, and picnicking.

10. WHERE CAN A GRASSLAND
BIOME BE FOUND?
 Grassland biomes can be found in the middle
latitudes, in the interiors of continents. They can
have either moist continental climates or dry
subtropical climates. The climate there is humid
and moist. Grasslands in the southern hemisphere
tend to get more rainfall than those in the
northern hemisphere, and the grass tends to be
the tall-grass variety. In Argentina, South
America, the grasslands are known as pampas.

11. PUBLICIZE POINTS OF INTEREST
IN THE GRASSLAND?
 Some could be in tropical grassland could be
looking at the rivers or enjoying watching
animals.

12. SUGGEST OTHER BIOMES
NEARBY FOR SIDE TRIPS.
 Nearby biomes are oceans and deserts

13. WHAT IS THE AVERAGE
PRECIPITATION?
 Grassland biomes are large, rolling terrains of
grasses, flowers and herbs. Latitude, soil and local
climates for the most part determine what kinds
of plants grow in a particular grassland. A
grassland is a region where the average annual
precipitation is great enough to support grasses,
and in some areas a few trees.

14. WHAT IS THE AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE?
 Temperate grasslands have hot summers and
cold winters. Summer temperatures can be well
over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, while winter
temperatures can be as low as -40 degrees
Fahrenheit. They typically have between 10 and
35 inches of precipitation a year, much of it
occurring in the late spring and early summer.

15. SUPPLIES/GEAR THAT TOURISTS
SHOULD BRING TO MAKE THEIR TRIP
MORE ENJOYABLE
 In the summer you should bring shorts, pants, T-
shirts, water, boots, coat, hat, and sunscreen. If
you go during the winter bring a heavy coat,
sweatshirts, pants, hat, and gloves. You should
also bring bag to carry stuff, extra water,
binoculars, insect spray, snacks,, extra cloths,
matches, tent, and extra food.

16. WHAT ARE SOME THREATS TO
THIS GRASSLAND?
 One threat to these Savanna biomes
is the animals which graze upon it.
Other biomes such as Taiga or
Rainforest have a high tree quantity
which means that less grass is able to
grow for animals to graze on.
However, since Savannas have few
trees and much wide open space
than other biomes an herbaceous
layer grows much easier.

17. ENDANGERED SPECIES
 Asian Elephant
 Mexican Prairie “marmot” Dog
 Northern hairy-nosed wombat
 Black Rhinocerous
 Grevy’s Zebra

18. IS THERE A FEAR OF CLIMATE
CHANGE FOR GRASSLAND BIOME
 In the past the Earth's climate has gone through
many cycles that have caused significant changes
to the Earth's atmosphere.
 More recently it has been acknowledged that
human activities over the past 200 years have
significantly altered the Earth’s atmosphere (CSIRO
2001) and have lead to a warming of the Earth’s
surface.
 The cause of the recent change in climate is mainly
due to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
Because greenhouse gas emissions are continuing
to increase, this warming will also continue (CSIRO
2001).

19. WHY IS THIS BIOME GLOBALLY
IMPORTANT?
 Grasslands are globally important because they
are a natural Carbon Sink and natural carbon
sinks are an important part of a natural process
called Carbon Cycle. In the carbon cycle, earth
both emits and re-captures and stores large
quantities of Carbon Dioxide, also known as CO2,
from the earth's atmosphere thereby keeping the
global temperature more or less in balance.
Terrestrial plants use the carbon dioxide from the
air for their photosynthesis process. Other
important carbon sinks are forests and oceans.

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