Climate Zone
What is a Tropical Savanna?
The tropical savanna is a biome that is characterized by grasslands with scattered trees or shrubs and a variety of wildlife.
Name one of the plant species mentioned in the portfolio.
Red Oat Grass, Baobab Trees, Euphorbia Ingens
Rainfall is one of the two vital components of this specific Climate-Vegetation Relationship
What is moisture availability?
They use the land for agriculture, to provide food.
Describe the Climate of the Tropical Savanna
A tropical savanna climate, also known as tropical wet and dry, is a climate characterized by distinct wet and dry seasons and is usually 10° and 25° latitude of north and south of the equator
What is another name for the Candelabra tree?
Euphorbia Ingens
A factor that influences water supply and affects plant growth, due to this being high.
What is temperature?
State one of the negative human impacts on the Tropical Savanna.
They burn the already dry land to clear the woodland.
They use the vegetation for livestock, influencing overgrazing.
State & explain a factor of the Tropical Savanna's climate
The Seasonal Rainfall- In the Tropical Savanna, rain mostly falls in the wet season, which lasts 4-6 months.
High Temperatures- The temperatures in the Tropical Savanna range from 20 - 30 degrees ,Celsius with the highest temperature recorded being 40 degrees celsius
Landscape- The Tropical Savanna’s landscape is mostly flat and open. This allows the land to receive high solar radiation and droughts.
Fires- Human and natural fires occur in the Tropical Savanna frequently, causing the land to be open, affecting rainfall patterns and increasing the temperature.
What is the scientific name of the Baobab tree?
Adansonia
This disaster leads to the withering of vegetation and increased risk of fires.
A Drought
True Or False:
Climate change can influence the stress of the Savanna vegetation
True
List the four characteristics in our portfolio influencing the Tropical Savanna's climate.
(100 for each listed)
Temperature, Vegetation, Animals, Distinct Seasons
What is a special trait of the Baobab Trees?
These trees store water in their trunks
OR
They bear fruits that are good for relieving digestion problems.
Influences the types of plants that can thrive in the savanna biome, which is why certain plants cannot grow in these areas..
What is Soil Fertility?
True or False
Excessive feeding of the livestock in these areas cannot lead to erosion
False
State the global distribution of the tropical savanna climate and state at least 3 factors.
Africa, South America, Australia, smaller areas in Asia, Central America, some islands in the Pacific.
Factors : Climate of the areas, amount of precipitation, soil types and fire.
State & Spell the scientific name for the Red Oat Grass
(Doing either grants you half the points)
T-H-E-M-E-D-I-A T-R-I-A-N-D-R-I-A
Plants have roots to access groundwater, to store in their roots or trunks for the dry seasons.
Some animals have long ears, legs and special teeth, while other burrow underground and camouflage themselves to hide from predators.
True or False
Due to the burning of the landscape, more carbon dioxide will be released into the air, thus resulting in more heat being trapped in the atmosphere, thus causing and increase in temperature, THUS causing plants to wither and animals to die due to no plants, THUS (no, I'm done)
True