Grasslands

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=How is a Grassland formed?=

The Grassland is formed like the forest

=Life in grasslands =

Animals
In the grasslands, there is a lot of life. There are reptiles, and mammals. There are lions, the biggest predators on the grasslands. They eat gazelles, zebras and all other things. There are also cheetahs, the fastest animal in the whole grasslands. They eat the same as lions do. There used to be the black rhinoceros but as we see it was extinct on the year 2012. There are a lot of bugs on the grasslands like the Goldenrod spider, the Marble orb weaver, (spider). There is also the golden eagle, that eats rodents, and is the most powerful predators in the avian world.Also there is rams and bison are in grasslands.

Plants
In the grass lands there is not only grass, but there is also a lot of flowers. For example there are a lot of weeds, like the ironweed, the milkweed, goldenrod and the thistles, also the snakeroots, and the big bluestem.

Snakes
In the grasslands there are mostly vipers, corn snakes, and garden snakes. Some rare ones are the Russel's viper, the king cobra, the cobra, the hairy bush viper, and the boomslang. The Russel's viper, is a dangerous snake, because it camouflages with the dirt, or leaves. It reacts when someone, or something steps on it. The king cobra is a kind of snake that doesn't like being near humans, and if another snake annoys it, he will eat it. The hairy bush viper is a snake that lives in the bushes. It has poison but it's not deadly. It attacks when a person is going to take a coffee bean or berries. Boom slang is a snake that has a highly potent venom

And many more...

= Natural disasters =

In the grasslands there are a lot of tornadoes, and Fires, extreme droughts and sometimes floods.

Tornadoes
Tornadoes is a wind that spins really fast. There are also fire tornadoes in the grasslands. Fire tornadoes

Wildfire
paragraph: what it is is; how it forms; how it effects the grasslands. Wildfires are formed by Lightning strikes,. ciggarets, and by campfires.

Sand Storm
paragraph: what it is is; how it forms; how it effects the grasslands. A sandstorm is formed in a desert when the wind is strong enough, it lifts the sand grains and then when they fall, then crash, and then become dust and then fly away, and then that dust can fly off to almost everywhere.

= = =Famous grasslands= WHERE. SIZES. ANIMALS or HUMAN USE. = = =How people use grasslands by nico=
 * American Great plains: They are giant long grasslands and do not have any hills. The American Great plains are in USA. The area of this grassland is about 1,300,000km2.
 * the Russian steppe: Steppe is also another word that means grassland in Russian.
 * African Savannah: Savannah is also another word for grassland but this time in African.

People use grasslands most of the time for livestock. They are also used for farming. Some grasslands are man made. How do they do it? they set a specific place on fire, and then it is all gone; then the trees regrow and then they have to set the place on fire again. We also use the grasslands for making roads.

We may be using the grasslands for work, but we may also use them for leisure. For example rally racing, racing,and especially building. it seems that people are attracted to flat lands because it is easy to find a place and build.

**Protection**

=Ecosystem=

Networks
A network is a balanced relationship that keeps life together and connected to every other living thing. There are two types of networks;Symbiotic and Trophic. Symbiotic Networks are about living things that get mutual benefits from each other. For example, bears and trees. The bear gets the fruit, and then delivers the seeds to a new place in its poop. Or, the bird that goes into the crocodiles mouth to clean the meat out of its teeth. The bird gets food, and the crocodile gets clean teeth and no infection. A Trophic Network is like a food web. For example, in the Tundra, the sun makes the algae, the fish eats the algae, the seal eats the fish, and then the polar bear eats the seal. This is an example of how energy moves from the sun to all species. for example are split into two groups, the trophic, and the symbiotic. An example is a rhino and an oxpicker; oxpicker the picks out the mites on the rhino, so the rhino gets clean and the oxpicker gets food.(Symbiotic) And the foodweb for example, The producer, then the zebra eats the producer(Grass), Then the cheetah eats the zebra. (Trophic.)

Nested systems
A Nested System is a system that shows how smaller systems are part and made of larger systems, but not connected. The systems that are closer have more impact to affect each other than systems that are farther away. For example, a student is in a classroom, a classroom is in a school, a school in a community, and a community is in a city. If one student left, it would affect the classroom a lot, and the school a little, but would not affect the city. for example a system that shows how smaller systems are part of larger systems, but not connected. The system that are closer affect each other more than when they are far away. For example if a student leaves, the class gets affected it also affects the elementary school, but not as much.

Cycles
A cycle is an invisible order of events that creates the things nature needs to stay alive. Because Earth is on a tilt, its orbit creates changes in the temperature because of the distance from the sun (more energy hits the Earth in summer, less in winter). For example, it the winter everything freezes and the animals go somewhere else to eat, but in the spring, when the plants grow, they come back. For example In the grasslands, there is the water cycle, the seed cycle, for example, the animal eats an apple from a tree, then the animal digests the food, then it becomes droppings, ant the seed gets planted; there are also the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle. Also, obviously the sun cycle and the life cycle. the sun cycle is the cycle that makes day and night. there are also the season cycle and the time cycle, but not only on grasslands, also everywhere else in the whole planet.

Flows
A Flow is when life energy goes through an ecosystem and may or may not come back. For example, the humpback whales most of the time migrate near Mexico, U.S.A, and Canada. they navigate themselves by memory.

Development
Development (or evolution) is when life changes in an ecosystem over millions of years in order to continue to survive and to spread. Life wants to create life. For example, the troodon, evolved because its continent started to move over to the colder areas. Before, the troodon was bald and big. then, it became furry and hairy, and smaller.

Dynamic balance
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