Grassland Savannah BiomeBy:Joseph Park

Zebras: Zebras have black and white stripes to help them camouflage. They don’t camouflage to their surrounding but they camouflage each other from predators.

Antelopes: Antelopes are a part of the cow family. Antelopes are similar to gazelles and impalas.

Biotic Factors

Lions: The lion has sharp teeth to catch prey, powerful legs to chase after prey. Lions live together and not alone. The color of the mane depends on the lion’s age.

Elephant: Elephants have long nose to grab branches off trees to eat. It is also the biggest land animal. It has big ears to cool their bodies in hot days.

Rhinoceros: Rhinoceros is combined with two greek words: rhino=nose and ceros=horn. Rhinoceros have a horn or horns. They are herbivorous animals with large bodies. They can be really aggressive.

Biotic Factors

Climate: The climate in a grassland savannah is hot and dry in the spring and summer when the plants grow, and cool or cold in the winter season. In the summer, a lot of water evaporates and rains in the summer.

Soil: The soil in the savannah has many holes. It has a thin layer of decomposition of plants and animals which help plants to get nutrients.

Abiotic Factors

Savannah on the Map

The orange color is the savannahs on the map.

Asia

Africa

Europe

South America

North America

Australia

Bermuda Grass: Bermuda Grass is tough and warm. It has a great drought resistance and with the right conditions, it can spread quickly.

Jarrah Tree: Jarrah Trees live in the savannah where there is warm and moist climate with fertile soil. Buffalo Grass: Buffalo Grass grows in the warm seasons. It grows between 2 inches to 5 inches.

Producers

Baobab Tree: The Baobab Tree can grow up to 25 meters. They can live a several thousand years. The Baobab tree is kind of looks like a tree that is upside down. Baobab Trees have deep tap roots to suck water underground.

Producers

Zebras: Their behavioral adaptation is that when they find a predator, they run in herds to confuse their predators with the zebra stripes. The body part adaptation is the stripes. Every zebra has a different stripe.

Cheetahs: Their body part adaptation is the spotted fur. Behavioral adaptation is that they camouflage to the surroundings to not notice the prey and then they will catch their prey.

Elephant: The body part adaptation is that they have tusks to protect themselves. They also have long nose to drink, eat, and bathe.

Animals and Their Adaptations

Savannah Food Web Picture

There are some conservation issues in the savannah all over the world. People are affecting the savannah by cattle grazing. Cattle grazing is when some cows are placed in a piece of land and there is fences around the cows to eat the grass for a period of time. That will harm the grass making the savannah into a desert. It will likely to have wildfires because its dry. Wildfires can hurt other animals and damage habitats of many animals. Also people hunt for many animals for meat and their body parts. For example, people are killing many elephants because their tusks are very useful. People also hunt for cheetahs and leopards for their skin. Many animals are endangered right now at the savannah. Could we help them?

Issues in the Savannah

Humans mined lots of fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas to produce electricity. The downside is that burning fossil fuels produce bad carbon dioxide that leads to global warming. Global warming can cause climate changes that the animals and plants need to adapt with it.

More Issues

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