what are steppes and savannas?
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Savannas. Savannas, sometimes called “tropical grasslands,” generally lie between a tropical rainforest and a desert. As such, they are warmer than steppes. They get roughly the same amount of rain as a steppe, but most of it falls during the summer.
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The natural vegetation in West Africa ranges from short grass at the desert border to humid rain forests at the southern border of the region near the Atlantic coast. The area in between is occupied by several vegetation zones ranging from tropical forests, to woodland, savanna, shrubs, and short grass.
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['Mountain Systems. ... ', 'Plateaus. ... ', 'Plains, Steppes, and Deserts. ... ', 'Freshwater.']
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['Croplands.', 'Urban and Built-Up.', 'Cropland/Natural Vegetation Mosaic.', 'Snow and Ice.', 'Barren or Sparsely Vegetated.']
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The major types of ecosystems are forests, grasslands, deserts, tundra, freshwater and marine.
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Coarse Dirt is a variation of dirt found in mega taiga, mesa, and savanna biomes that neither grass nor mycelium will grow on top of despite the light level, unlike regular dirt.
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The different types of land are known as biomes. These are divided into four classifications: desert, forest, grassland and tundra. Land biomes are typically defined by the type of vegetation they possess, the types of animals that inhabit them and their climate, such as rainfall and temperature.
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The world's major biomes include rainforest, desert, savanna, grassland and tundra.
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Plains are flat swaths of land. Grasslands are Plains that are covered in grass. However, Prairies can also be Plains; but a Prairie and a Grassland are different.
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A prairie is a special type of plain. A plain is a flat surface with no elevation and depression. It may have any type of vegetation or no vegetation at all. When it is covered with perennial grass, the plain is referred to as a prairie.
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Climate. Grasslands (steppes) are temperate environments, with warm to hot summers and cool to very cold winters; temperatures are often extreme in these midcontinental areas. They are often located between temperate forests and deserts, and annual precipitation falls between the amounts characteristic of those zones.
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It is a transitional ecoregion of semi-arid grasslands, savannas, steppes, and thorn shrublands lying between the wooded Sudanian savanna to the south and the Sahara to the north. The topography of the Sahel is mainly flat; most of the region lies between 200 and 400 meters (660 and 1,310 ft) in elevation.
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The Steppe, belt of grassland that extends some 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometres) from Hungary in the west through Ukraine and Central Asia to Manchuria in the east.
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Natural vegetation is generally classified into three broad categories: Forests, Grasslands and Shrubs. The different types of natural vegetation are Tropical Evergreen Forests, Tropical Deciduous Forests, Temperate Evergreen Forests, Temperate Deciduous Forests, Meditterean Vegetation and Coniferous Forests.
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The term "steppe climate" denotes the climate encountered in regions too dry to support a forest but not dry enough to be a desert. ... Steppes are usually characterized by a semi-arid or continental climate. Extremes can be recorded in the summer of up to 45 °C (115 °F) and in winter, −55 °C (−65 °F).
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Besides the rare tree, desert vegetation may include shrubs and cacti. Scientists divide the Earth's land into what are called vegetation regions.
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Zebra, any of three species of strikingly black-and-white striped mammals of the horse family Equidae (genus Equus): the plains zebra (E. quagga), which is found in rich grasslands over much of eastern and southern Africa; Grevy's zebra (E.