Savanna 

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Key Characteristics . . . . . 4 Producers . . . . . 5 Consumers . . . . . 6 - 7 Decomposers . . . . . 8 Energy pyramids . . . . . 9 Food web . . . . . 10 Earth's Major systems . . . . . 11 Savanna Threats . . . . . 12 - 13 Glossary . . . . . 14 - 15

A chemical in food that helps things grow.

A place giving temporary protection from bad weather or danger.

Zebras are herbivores. To get energy they eat grass and  a lot of water. Zebras need to drink at least 1 gallon of water a day.

Ostriches are omnivores. To get energy they need 24% fiber, crude protein, 16 % ash, and 3 % lupids. they need at least 4.5 liters of water a day. They also need 60 to 80 square feet for shelter for their house.

In the savanna it is hot all year. There is a wet season and a dry season. In the wet season it is hot, humid, amd there is heavy rain. In the dry season it is winter, droughts often occur.

In the savanna, Snakes, lizards, and meerkats live in underground holmes or burrows. Also, frogs, turtles, and crocodiles dig in the mud in rivers and lagoons to keep shelter. 

In the savanna, Lemon grass grows very long during the wet season. Lemon grass also stores water in its roots during the dry season as well as baobab trees store water in their trunks.

In the savanna near the equator it is very hot. Also all of the savannas are located in Australia, South America, Asia, and Africa.

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Some threats to the savanna are over grazing sheep, farmers taking over land, and mining.

What causes over grazing sheep? It is where farmers plant crops where open grasslands were. If we did nothing about it other species will go extinct. How we can stop it is? We can start shearing sheep and not letting them over graze.

What causes mining? It is species richness, variety, and composition are endangered by coal mining operations. What would happen if we did nothing? A mine that is abandoned can have pollution for hundreds of years and maybe thousands.

Consumers are the living things that eat the producers. So an elephant would eat shrubs in the savanna.

In the savanna an Elephants energy is carbohydrate, fats, and proteins. Elephants drink 18,26,40, or 55 gallons of water a day. Elephants are also herbivores.

Lions are carnivores they get energy from 15,000 kcal of protein. Lions need 1.5 gallons of water a day. Lions also live in a denor or a lair.

Giraffes are herbivores. They get their energy from the digestive system, leaves and budson trees. Giraffes only need to drink water every few days.

What causes farmers taking over land?  Farmers plant wheat fields on land where steppe grass used to grow. What would happen if we didn't stop it?  A wide spread degrading  soils in the savanna ecosystem. Farmers don't realize how much damage it causes.

The purpose of a food web is to show the life cycle. In a food web you start with a producer and then the food web goes off of that producer or animal.

The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to&nbsp;synthesize&nbsp;foods from carbon&nbsp;dioxide&nbsp;and water. Photosynthesis in plants generally involves the green&nbsp;pigment&nbsp;chlorophyll&nbsp;and generates oxygen as a&nbsp;byproduct.

Producers are&nbsp;organisms that can produce their own food. They usually include green plants. They trap the energy from the sun and use it to make food by the process of photosynthesis. All the other organisms depend on producers for food, since they are not capable of making food for themselves.

An&nbsp;imaginary&nbsp;line drawn around the earth which makes it hot.

In an energy pyramid  you start with your primary sources the plants and then you would have your herbivores and omnivores. Then you would have the carnivores and omnivores that eat the herbivores and the omnivores.

Decomposers are living animals that eat dead organisms and then they produce energy for other animals.

In the savanna termites get energy from a rate surrounding soil allowing moca water to penetrate more energy. They do the same thing to get water. To get nutrients they eat cellulose. Also for shelter they stay in termite mounds.

Bacteria get energy from oxidation of organic compounds. Bacteria needs at least 0.91 of water. For shelter they need warm moist protein, rich environment that is ph neutral or slightly acidic.

Fungi get energy from other organisms. Fungi gets clean cool fresh water. The nutrients Fungi needs is phosphorus, Sulfur, Potassium, Magnesium, and small quantities of Iron, Zinc, manganese, and copper.

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Producers are the main source of food in an ecosystem so a shrub would give a sort of sugar to plants or animals in a savanna.

In the savanna Baobab trees get their energy from the sun and water. Baobab trees grow by storing water in their trunks and then use the water during the dry season.

In the savanna shrubs get energy from sunlight captured by plants and convert that energy into rich sugar using photosynthesis.

In the savanna candelabra trees mostly get their energy from the sun and water. Candelabra trees also use the soak and dry method and allow the soil to dry out completely between waterings. Also, Candelabra trees don't use nutrients to survive.

The geosphere is important to the savanna because the geosphere provide natural resources to grow food. The geosphere is layers of earth a hot solid core of soft rock and a hard crust of rock, soil, sediments, and minerals.

The atmosphere is important to the savanna because it protects animals from harmful radiation. The atmosphere includes the air in other gases that surround the earth.

The hydrosphere is important to the savanna because water sustains various life forms and play an important role in ecosystems and regulating the atmosphere.

The biosphere is important to the savanna because it provides necessary environmental conditions for survival. The biosphere includes all life on earth as well as the organic waste or dead matter produced by living organisms.  