MaKayla- Abiotic & Biotic Factors in Grassland

-Weather, climate, soil, water availability

-Winters cool, Summers humid and rainy, normally warm year-round. They are different from desserts because they have more vegetation.

 dry season: soil becomes infertile and many of the small grasses and shrubs die. Summer season: soil is very fertile because of the constant grazing of large herbivores.

Water in the savannas is scarce in the winter season but kinda plentiful in the summer season

Not enough rainfall to be classified as a rainforest but not dry enough to be a desert

Biotic Factors

Several large herbivores, large cats, and other carnivorous animals 

animals such as elephants, zebra, lions, cheetahs, wildebeests, gazelle, giraffes, Emu, crocodiles, Hippopotamus, and many more

Small grasses and shrubs trees such as Jackalberry trees, Whistling Thorn, and Manketti Trees

Many of the animals in the African Savannas are endangered such as African elephants, African Rhinos, Lions, Cheetahs, and Giraffes

Ways they Interact

-Grazing from herbivores keeps soil fertile in the Summer Season

-trees give food to animals like giraffes and elephants

-animals eat animals for food (helps keep animals species from overpopulating

-plants keep herbivores alive

-rain replenishes water on the ground for the organisms to drink and to water the grass and trees and shrubs.