By: AbdulRahman Al-Mana and Ebrahim Al-Muhannadi
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About a quarter of the world is grasslands, every
continent has a grassland, except the Artic and
Antarctic. In the summer it’s really hot and in the
winter it’s cold. Grasslands are covered in grasses,
herbs and flowers. ("Buzzle Web Portal: Intelligent Life on the Web")
The Grasslands here are some temperate prairies: North
American Prairies, South American Pampas, Eurasian
Steppe and South American Veld. (Whitfield, Moore, and Cox
70-71)
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http://packerpedia.wiki.packer.edu/file/view/
34_14TemperateGrassland_CNL.jpe/31115653/3
4_14TemperateGrassland_CNL.jpe
Picture of Buffalo eating Grass
http://seoeun01px2009.files.wordpress.com/
2007/10/buffalo-grass3.jpg /
Temperate Prairies
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 50% of the grasslands are covered in grass the rest are
forbs (forbs is a shortened word for “Euphorbiaceae”.)
 These are some species of grasses and forbs:
Grey-Headed Cone, Lupines, Milkweed, Big Blue stem,
Broom Sedge, Prairie Cord Grass, Indian Grass and
Ironweed. ("Grassland habitat")
 Trees can’t grow because of the lack of moisture, but
flowers can grow because of the fast decay of humus,
which lets out nutrients for them. ("Grassland")
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http://www.hamiltonnature.org/habitats/habi
tat_images/Prairie-Grass-Photo-1.jpg /
Grey-Headed Coneflowers
(http://www.hamiltonnature.org/habitats/habitat_
images/Wild-Bergamot.jpg/ Wild Bergamot
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 Types of Animals:
Mammals, Insects and Birds
 Behavioral and Physical Adaptations
Female Coyotes give birth in Spring and can have up to 5 or 6
pups. Coyotes have great hearing when they can hear every
step of their prey and when they sense danger they run
straight away.
The Bald Eagle can put it’s large nests on trees, ground and
cliffs. These eagles will also change their nutrients
depending on where they live.
The Prairie Dogs live in burrows called towns . They leave 2
open holes for running away and for air. Also they don’t like
really small places either because they can’t see if they’re in
danger or not. (“Blue Planet Biome”)
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 Some Large Mammals:
Cheetah, Elk, Coyote, The “Big Horn” Sheep and Leopards.
 Some small mammals:
Swift Fox, Bush Dog, Pouched Mouse, European snow vole,
Doe, Buck, Iranian jerboa, Alai mole vole, Highveld gerbil,
Common long-nosed armadillo and Steppe pika.
 Some animals like the African Elephant in the Temperate
Grassland Migrate during the winter because it gets really
cold. ("Temperate Grassland Animals")
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African Elephant
http://thewebsiteofeverything.com/img/Afr
ican_elephant.JPG
Swift Fox
http://thewebsiteofeverything.com/img/swi
ft_fox.jpg
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 Most common birds that live in the temperate prairies
like Quails migrate during the cold seasons to more
warmer places then in the warm season they come
back.
 The most common insect is the bumble bees, ants,
crickets, grass hoppers and mosquitoes. ("Absolute
Astronomy")
 Some Omnivores (Meat and Herb eater), while eating
the grass they will eat the insects with them, insects
like grasshoppers and crickets. These insects give them
nutrients.
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The Bald Eagle
http://homepage.mac.com/wildlifeweb/bir
d/bald_eagle/bald_eagle_06tk.jpg
Bumble Bee
http://www.eduwebs.org/bugs/bumble_bee.
jpg
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 The climate in winter goes below 18oC in parts of the
places while in the summer it can reach above 32oC.
(Bailey)
 The rain in in the temperate grasslands don’t come
often as the tall-grass prairies. That’s why the grasses
are short
 The soil is deep and dark very fertile lot’s of nutrients
which allows lots of plants to grow but trees don’t grow
because of the lack of moisture.(Webber)
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 People their take the good land
for farming. I think it’s bad
because it leaves less space for
the animals to live in and if
they take all the good space the
animals can’t eat anymore
which would lead to animals
extinct. . (ID1276710947)
People Farming
http://webpages.scu.edu/ftp/eching/im
ages/farm_work.jpg
• Also hunting has been a major issue people hunted
elephants for tusks also lions and bison for their meat
and also to go to the zoo. This can lead animal extinct.
("Grassland")
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http://www.deepcreektimes.com/kids/world_grasslands_map.jpg
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2.(Whitfield, Moore, and Cox 70-71): Whitfield, Philip, Peter Moore, and Barry Cox.
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Museum of Paleontology. California Academy of Sciences., 2002. Web. 17 Mar
2010. <http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/grasslands.php>.
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6.("Grassland") :"Animals and Plants in Temperate Grassland." Grassland. ThinkQuest
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n.d. Web. 17 Mar 2010. <http://biology.about.com/od/landbiomes/a/aa042106a.htm>.
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WikiAnswers. Web. 17 Mar 2010.
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