Types
Threats/Benefits
Conservation
Data
Extras
100

An area large flat area covered in grasses with less than 35 inches of rain annually.

What is a grassland?

100

This would limit the biodiversity of grasslands.

What is only planting one 1 crop and not rotating crops each year?

100

This service was formed by the federal government due to the Dust Bowl.

What is Soil Conservation Services?

100

The length of time it takes for topsoil to regenerate.

What is 1,000 years?

100

Wood vegetation that can harm grasslands.

What is trees and shrubs?

200

Extreme climates with fertile soil created from decaying grass roots.

What is temperatre grasslands?

200

List the 2 things that define overgrazing.

What is animals overeating (not rotating fields) and their hooves compacting the soil?

200
The length of drought after the intial Dust Bowl in the 1930s.

What is 10 years?

200

The reason temperate grassland soil is so fertile.

What is decaying grass roots belong the soil?

200

The only continent that does not have any grasslands.

What is Antarctica?

300

The amount of temperate grasslands that remain in North America after the development of agricultural fields.

What is 50%?

300

Fires help control this in grasslands.

What is controls invasive species?

300

The % of Duck Stamp Act provided to wetland and waterfowl habitat aquisition.

What is 98%?

300

The continents Savannas are located on.

What is Africa, Australia and S.America?

300

This determines an areas a grassland habitat.

What is precipitation?

400

Have high temperates all year and contain some trees and shrubs.

What is a Savanna or tropical glasslands?
400

This happened in the 1930 to grasslands.

What is the Dust Bowl?

400

Incentives provided to landowners to conserve grassland habitats.

What is the Farm Bill?

400

The % of grasslands currently protected.

What is 8%?

400

84% of grasslands are this.

What is privately owned?

500

Grasslands in mountainous regions with higher elevations and more cloud cover.

What is Montane grasslands?
500

List 3 services grasslands provide.

What is deep/rich soils, store carbon dioxide, filter runoff from precipitation and provide habitats for wildlife?

500

Practice used to control weed and aerate the soil.

What is Tillage?

500

This much of the terrestrial Earth are covered in grasslands.

What is 20-40%?

500

List 2 things cover crops do.

What is increase water retention, prevent soil erosion and provide habitats for other animals that eat crop pests, like spiders?

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