Grasslands

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__**Welcome to Grasslands Biome**__
By Cortney L. and Makailyn B.

= = = = = = =Community= These pictures are examples of the Grasslands. Grasslands can be found all around the world. In North America, grasslands are found in the mid-west, and on the west coast of Mexico. In South America, the Grasslands are found in the southern part of Brazil, and the northern part of Argentina. In Africa, they are found throughout central, south, east, and west. In Europe, there are very little grasslands, but some can be found in the middle east, and on on the border of Asia. In Asia, grassslands are found in China, and in the middle-east near Iraq. There is no grassland found in the polar zone, which is about 66 degrees north and south, because this climate is too cold for the grasses to grow. Many types of organisms can be found in the grasslands, even as small as bacteria, and as large as elephants. Each organism belongs to one of the five kingdoms. All of the organisms in this community create the food chain, which makes living possible for larger organisms.

Starting with our smallest group of organisms, Kingdom Monera include bacteria. Cynobateria can not be easily found in the grassland biome. The bacteria includes Arthrobacteria, bacillus, nocadia, micrococcus, and many others.

Kingdom Protista is another kingdom that includes alge and protozoans like the paraluffispharea and luffishpaera.

Another kingdom is Kingdom Fungi. Kingdom Fungi contains three groups called club-like fungi, thread-like fungi, and sac fungi. Mushrooms and puffballs could be found in the club-like fungi catagory. Yeast would be in sac fungi. Mold would be found in the final group of thread-like fungi.

The fourth kingdom is Kingom Plantae. Kingdom Plantae includes an assortment of vascular and non-vascular plants such as grass. There are also flowering and non-flowering plants such as the savannah trees, palm trees, acacias trees, and flowers. The last kingdom is Kingdom Animilia. In the grassland there are about 300 species of mamals and about 80 species of birds. Some things that belong to this catagory would be a coyote, flycatcher, elephant, and many more. =Climate= Grasslands have two different kinds of grasses. The Savanna and the Temperate Grassland. In the Savanna, the highest rain fall they could get is 30-40 inches, some other places could only get 6-10 inches of rain a year. Savanna has both a dry and rainy season. October has violent thunderstorms, followed by strong dry winds, these are signs that the dry season is about to begin. The temperate grassland is the other important grassland where the percipitation occurs in the late spring and early summer. The average rain is about 20 -35 inches per year. The temperatures in these parts have a very large range. The summer temperature can get well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. When the winter temperatures can be as low as -40 degress Fahrenheit.

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