Deep valley
European plains
Arctic wasteland
Southern African grassland
A grassland ecosystem is a dry area of land dominated by grasses. Huge trees and shrubs are very rarely found in these regions, which is mainly because of the climatic conditions and other environmental factors, which do not withstand the plant’s requirements.
Grasslands are also called transitional landscape. In a grassland ecosystem, the vegetation is dominated by herbs and grass. These ecosystems are mainly found in regions, where there is a scarcity of water and not enough and regular rainfall to support the growth of plants and forests. The grassland ecosystem lies between the deserts and the forest ecosystems.
Savanna grasslands and temperate grasslands are some examples of grassland ecosystems. There are many other types of grassland around the world, which go by many names. Grasslands of South America are known as pampas and central Eurasian grasslands are referred to as steppes and so on.
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- Veld (noun) – the open country, bearing grass, bushes, or shrubs, or thinly forested, characteristic of parts of southern Africa.
- Steppe (noun) – a large area of land with grass but few trees, especially in south-east Europe and Siberia: Most of the country is covered by steppes, with desert areas and some patches of cultivated land.
- Pampas (noun) – the large area of land in South America that has few trees and is covered in grass: The novel depicts life on the Argentine pampas. On the other side of the mountains, the pampas stretches/stretch all the way to the ocean.
- Savannah (noun) – a wide flat open area of land, especially in Africa, that is covered with grass but has few trees: Mount Kilimanjaro rises straight up out of the African savannah.
- Prairie (noun) – a flat, wide area of land in North America and Canada, without many trees and originally covered with grass: Only about 5 per cent of native prairie is left in Kansas.
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