Fires
Rainfall
Plants
Animals
Miscellaneous
100
This allows grasses to survive fires.
What is extensive root systems?
100
Compared to deserts and forests, amount of rainfall in the grassland.
What is more rainfall than a desert and less rainfall that in a forest?
100
This characteristic of bunchgrasses helps conserve water, forms a compact root system and allows them to make their own shade.
What is clumping?
100
This determines animal migrations on savannas.
What is rainfall?
100
Today, what is mostly grown where native grasses used to grow?
What are cereal grains?
200
Benefits of fires (2)
What is help seeds germinate? What is burn away dead plants? What is release nutrients into the soil?
200
The limiting factor in a grassland.
What is rainfall?
200
This is how a lot of grassland seeds are moved around.
What is the wind?
200
A benefit of a vertical feeding pattern for savanna herbivores.
What is avoicance of competition for food?
200
Follows short rainy seasons in the savanna?
What is a drought?
300
Reason why most trees are killed and don't grow back after a fire?
What is most of the tree's mass is above the ground?
300
A tree that is drought resistant needs little of this.
What is rain?
300
Horizontal stems below the ground.
What are runners?
300
Overgrazing leads to (1)
What is death of grasses? What is longer grass production time? What is loosening of soil?
300
Describe savanna rainfall.
What is short-lived and intense?
400
Most fires that start naturally are caused by this.
What is lightning?
400
Determined by grassland rainy seasons and drought.
What is the behavior of organisms who live there?
400
What are runners used for?
What is reproduction?
400
Name a grassland animal.
What is a prairie dog? What is a bison? What is a warthog? What is a giraffe? What is an elephant? What is a gazelle?
400
The two biomes are grasslands found between (typically).
What are deserts and forests?
500
The character who used to say "Only you can prevent forest fires".
Who is Smokey the Bear?
500
Because the far west Great Plains get approximately 40 cm or less rain/yr they can also be called this (type of grassland).
What is a steppe?
500
The purpose of sharp leaves and thorns on savanna plants.
What is discouraging grazers?
500
Animal that makes extensive network of underground tunnels in the grassland.
What is a prairie dog?
500
A grassland with rolling hills and sod-forming grasses.
What is a prairie?
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