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Complete the following.
1. What is a grassland?
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What is the desert-grassland boundary, and why is it changeable?
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What is the most common organism living in the grasslands and in what ways is it adapted to
life in this biome?
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Explain the important role of grass fires in grasslands.
5.
What adaptation of some plants and trees enables them to survive long periods without rain?
6.
List the three grassland biomes.
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b.
c.
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Complete the following.
1. What is a steppe?
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2. What distinguishes a steppe from a desert?
3. Describe the climate of a steppe.
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4. What are prairies?
5. Which has more fertile soil, a prairie or a steppe? Why?
6. Explain how bunchgrasses are adapted to the steppe.
7. Name some behavioral adaptations of animals to the steppe and prairie.
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Complete the following.
1. What is the definition of a savanna?
2. Describe the climate of the savanna.
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3. What is a runner and how does it protect plants from their environment?
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4. What advantages do savanna plants have by growing rapidly?
5. Name some typical organisms of the savanna.
6. What advantage do savanna trees and shrubs that grow thorns have? __~
7. What is a vertical feeding pattern?
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8. Name some animals that exhibit a vertical feeding pattern.
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