grassland plants

Explains how the plants and animals of a grassland form a food web in which energy is distributed throughout the entire environment.

"Grassland biomes are unaltered areas of land where grass is the dominant plant life, as opposed to other terrestrial biomes where trees occupy most of the land surface. They are inhabited by grazing mammals, ground-nesting birds, insects, and a few species of reptiles."--From cover.

Readers learn about what a grassland is, which plants and animals live there, and differences between temperate and tropical grassland.

Describes the grassland ecology of the great plains of the world with their various landscapes such as the savannah, the tundra, the steppe, and the great American plains.

Describes the grassland ecology of the great plains of the world with their various landscapes such as the savannah, the tundra, the steppe, and the great American plains.

Explains how the plants and animals of a grassland form a food web in which energy is distributed throughout the entire environment.

Photographs and text provide information about grassland habitats, looking at grasslands in different parts of the world, and describing some of the unique plants and animals that live on the grasslands. Includes a glossary.