Biome: Grasslands
Date Submitted: 12/17/2003 11:33:51
Category: / Society & Culture / Geography
Length: 2 pages (597 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / Geography
Length: 2 pages (597 words)
Grasslands are characterized as lands dominated by grasses rather than large shrubs or trees. In the Miocene and Pliocene Epochs, which spanned a period of about 25 million years, mountains rose in western North America and created a continental climate favorable to grasslands. Ancient forests declined and grasslands became widespread. Following the Ice Ages, grasslands expanded in range as hotter and drier climates prevailed worldwide. There are two main divisions of grasslands: (1) tropical grasslands, called savannas, …
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