By Bailey Fasano & Hailey Jagger

Grasslands are areas dominated by grasses and forbs, and have few or no trees.

Categorized as savannas, pampas, campos, plains, steppes, prairies and veldts.

Two main types: • Temperate Grasslands• Tropical Grasslands

Located on every continent•Except Antarctica

Occupies ¼ of Earth’s surface Some Places Include

•U.S. Midwest- prairies•South America- pampas•Central Eurasian- steppes•Africa- savannas

January- 20˚F July- 70˚F West of the Mississippi River

temperatures are moist and humid• Summers: warm and humid• Winters: cold but not to the extreme

Further West temperatures are drier• Summers: hot• Winters: very cold

Annual Rainfall is 10-30 inchesMonthly Rainfall is 0.8-2.5 inches

Big Bluestem Grass Milkweed

• Grass is also called Turkey feet because the shape of the

seed heads look like turkey feet.

• They can grow to be 3 to 10 feet

• It blooms from June through September.

• Produces red and yellow blossoms in the spring that are less than an inch across.

• They grow in a cluster at the top of woody stems.

• The milkweed has a white, poisonous sap and can grow to be 2 to 3 1/2 feet. It has big leaves that can grow to be 9 inches -1 foot

long.

Buffalo Grass Purple Coneflower

• It grows between 2 and 5 inches

tall and spreads out between six feet and 12 feet (3-4 m).

• It has a round hollow stem with gray, green curly leaves.

• The leaves are 1/10 " wide and 2" long.

• It can grow to be 2-3 feet tall.• The center can grow to the size of

a child's fist, and the petals are about as long as the diameter of

the center.• It is part of the daisy and

dandelion family.

American Bald Eagle Prairie Dog

• National bird of the United States of America.

• It is considered a sea eagle that has a white head.

• Weighs eight to twelve pounds. • Their wingspan can be two meters (seven feet) and they can be larger than a meter from head

to tail.

• The adults usually weigh around 1 to 3 1/2 pounds

• Two types of prairie dogs: black-tailed and white-tailed. • Most common is the black-

tailed prairie dog.

Swift Fox Bumble Bee

• A small, delicate fox, the smallest wild canid of the North American continent.

• It is about the size of a cat, standing 12 inches (30 cm) in height, and 31

inches (79 cm) in length from head to tail.

• The male, or dog fox, is larger than the female, known as a vixen.

• Queen bumble bees are about 3/5 to 1 inch long.

• The other types, workers and drones, are slightly smaller than

that.

Grasslands are a transition space between deserts and forest.• If the grasslands received any more rain:

forest• If the grasslands had less rain: deserts

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