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By Katherine
Africa
Australia
Asia
North
America
Europe
The winter in the grasslands is very dry.
The plants dry up and die. Hardly any
rain falls. The temperature is between
20 and 25 degrees.
Summer in the grasslands is the wet
season. Between 10 to 30 inches of
rain falls. The temperature is
usually between 25 and 30 degrees.
Gazelles belong to the Antelope family . Some
gazelles have two large horns at the top of their head.
Gazelles can run at short burst of nearly 97kms an
hour. There are 13 different species of gazelles,
however four of them are extinct. A Gazelles diet
mainly consists of plants, and they weigh 12-75kgs,
and they are roughly between 59- 109cms tall.
There are lots of plants in the grasslands, and here are just some
of them:
Umbrella tree
Wild date palm
Strangle fig
Sausage tree
Redgrass
Commlipohora
Indian grass
Big blue stem
Little blue stem
Yellow fever tree
And LOTS more
There are lots of plants in the grasslands, ranging
from, big trees like the Acacia tee, to little plants
like Kangaroo paw.50% of all plants in the
grasslands are grass, making it the most
commonly found plant there. They can even
survive bush fires, unlike most trees which would
get destroyed. Trees are not very common in the
grasslands, but you will still see them.
Here are some examples of food chains in the grasslands
The Lion eats the Gazelle
The grass eats the sun
The Gazelle eats the
grass
THE GRASS EATS THE SUN
THE ZEBRA EATS THE
GRASS
THE TIGER EATS THE
ZEBRA
Did you know??????
• grasslands are on all continents except for Antarctica
• grasslands have grass in them
• in America there once was a time when there were
millions of Bison roaming around.
• 20% of the world is grasslands
• the biggest grasslands in the world is the
Savanna in Africa
• the African government has set up national
parks to help preserve them.
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