THE SAVANNAS

KEY WORDS

• Ecosystem: A community of living organisms and nonliving components of their environment, interacting as a system
• Climate: The long-term weather pattern of a certain place
• Producer: An organism that creates it's own food from the sun.
• Decomposer: An organism that breaks up leftovers into waste.
• Consumer: An organism that eats other organisms.

LOCATION

• The savannah fills up most of Africa
• It's also in Nortnern Australia
• And South America
• Also a small amount of Southern Asia
• Usually 8 to 20 degrees from the Equator.

The climate of the savanna is warm and dry for most of the year. However, there's some rainfall after short periods of time.

3 TYPES OF SAVANNAS

• The "wet savanna"- dry season lasts 3 to 5 months.
• The "dry savanna"- dry season lasts 5 to 7 months.
• The "thornbush savanna"- dry season lasts longer than 7 months.

THE ANIMALS

• Primary consumers/herbivores, such as impalas, warthogs, and zebras.
• Secondary consumers/carnivores, such as lions, cheetahs, and leopards.
• Omnivores, such as humans and aardvarks.
• Scavengers, such as vultures and hyenas.

The savanna's plant life are producers, such as grasses, Jackalberry trees, and Acacia trees.

The adaptations include trees being deeply rooted into the ground to protect itself from the dry season and fires. Grasses are dormant while its dry and grows fast when it rains.

The savanna is getting smaller due to overgrazing and farming. When this happens, the grass doesn't grow back and the savannas turn to desert.

Food web

LINKS

• Savanna article
• African savanna article
• Searching the savanna article
• Biomes savanna grasslands article