Savanna

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Lucía and Ingrid

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Lucía and Ingrid

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Hot, seasonally dry grassland with scattered trees. Enviroment: intermediate between a grassland and a forest. Climate: two seasons: very long dry season and a rainy season

Description

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In tropics and subtropics, often bordering a rainforest. Located in Africa, Madagascar,Australia, South

America, India and in the Myanmar-Thailand.

Location

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Different populations of animals. Africa: meerkat, giraffe, impala… Australia: kangaroo, wallaby, wombat... South America: rhea, deer… India: tiger, indian wolf… Myanmar-Thailand: asiatic water buffalo…

Fauna

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Long tap roots that can reach the deep water

table. Thick bark to resist annual fires. Trunks that can store water. Leaves that drop of during the winter to

conserve water. Pine ,palm and acacia trees

Flora

Umbrella Thorn Acacia

Savanna Onion

Maritime slash pine savanna

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Global climate change is shifting the odds Consequence: more extreme events like fires

and floods, stronger tropical cyclons… Introduced spieces Pollution

Changes

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Famers who grow cereals and other plants

that can resist long dry spells. Indigenous people there: the Nubians, the

Kualngo, the Akan, the Bushmen, the Hottentots and the best know people in this habitat, the Masai

People there