TROPICAL SAVANNAS

TROPICAL SAVANNA CLIMATE

• Humid climate with annual percipitation
• 10 to 30 inches of rain in December - February
• Throughout the rest of they year the savanna gets hardly and rainfall
• Winter Temperatures 68'F to 86'F
• Summer Temperatures 78'F to 86'F

Locations

• Northern Australia
• East Africa
• Brazil
• Columbia
• Venezuela

PLANT SPECIES

• Grasses are a dominant plant life and can grow from 6 to 9 feet tall
• Acacia and Baobab trees are most common n tropical savannas
• These plants developed an adaptation that allows them to grow quickly
• Baobab tree survives by only producing leaves during the wet season
• Small size leaves help limit water loss

ANIMAL SPECIES

• Common animals in the tropical savanna is giraffes, elephants, zebras, and rhinos
• Tall animals adapt to the environmet by storing away food n water for dry season
• Giraffes are only able to get little food due to the dome shaped trees

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MAJOR CONFLICTS

• Major conflicts in Tropical Savannas is wildfires
• They can occur in a wet or dry environment
• These wildfires can last for weeks n spread thousands of miles.

POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

• We have established a charity to help raise money
• With this money we built a fire station near the savanna
• This helps to tame the spread of the fire and to protect the animals

LINKS FO ADDITIONAL INFO

• http://www.savannaoak.org/brushcutting.html
• http://www.savanna.org.au/al/wildfire.html
• http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_savanna_wildfires_start

SOURCES

• Computer
• Phone
• Books
• iPad