African+Biomes

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**Vocabulary-**
**Ecosystem**: A system formed by the interaction of a  of organisms with their environment. **8.Savanna: ** Grassland region with scattered trees, grading into either open plain or woodland, usually in sub-tropical or tropical regions. 9.**Desert**: A reigon with little rainfall, very arid, widely spaced **10.Rainforest: ** A tropical forest, usally tall with trees, densley growing, high annual rainfall
 * 1)  **Biodiversity **:  diversity among  and within plant and animal speciesin an  [[file:///browse/environment|environment]].
 * 2) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #f52ef1; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Bio**e**m**: acomplexbiotic [[file:///browse/community|community]] characterized by distinctive plant and animalspecies and maintained under the climatic conditions of the region, especially such a community that has developed to climax.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ee20f3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Conservation**: theact of [[file:///browse/conserve|conserving]]; prevention of injury, decay, waste, or loss;preservation:conservation of wildlife; conservation of [[file:///browse/human+rights|hu]][[file:///browse/human+rights|man rights]].
 * 4) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ec33f0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Rift**: an opening made by splitting, cleaving, etc.; fissure; cleft; chink.
 * 5) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ee20f3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Endemic:** Natural to or characteristic to specific people or places
 * 6) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ee20f3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Ecoregion:** An area defined by its environmental conditions

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff0a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Niger, Sudan || ===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic ===
 * || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Savanna** || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Desert**  || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Rainforest**  ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #d9176f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; vertical-align: sub;">**Location** || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D'ivore, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana, and South Africa. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff0a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Namibia

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Liberia, Nigeria
|| <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Dry Season:4 in || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff0a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">10 in. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">rainforests receive at least 80 inches (200 cm) of rain per year. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">2. Camels <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">3. Snakes <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">4. Bats <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">5. Goats <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">6. Lizards <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">7. Gazelles <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">8. Antelope <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">9. Porcupine <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">10. Sheep <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">11. Coyotes <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">12. Desert Elephants <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">13. Dingo <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">14. Bald Eagle <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">15. Gerbil || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">1. Frogs <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">2. Butterflies <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">3. Gorilla <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">4. Elephants <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">5. Monkeys <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">6. Parrots <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">7. Lizards <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">8. Hippos <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">9. Snakes <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">10. Driver ants <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">11. Okapi <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">12. Tree Snails <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">13. Sloth <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">14. Beatles <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">15. Tigers || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">2.Baobab <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">3. Bermuda Grass <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">4. Candelabra Tree <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">5. Elephant Grass <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">6. Jackal Berry Tree <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">7. Manketti Tree <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">8. River Bush willow <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">9.Umbrella Thorn Acacia <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">10. Whistling Thorn || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">1.African Welwitchsia <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">2.African peyote cactus <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">3. Eragrostis <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">4. Fig <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">5. Date Palm <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">6. Doum Palm <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">7. Thyme <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">8. Magaria <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">9. Olive Trees || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">1.Bromeliads <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">2.Epiphytes <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">3.Saprophytes <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">4.Buttress Roots <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">5. Lianas <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">6.Stilt or Prop Roots <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">7.Orchids <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">8.Strangler <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">9.Carnivorous Plants <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">10. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">2. The Sahara desert has around 500 species of flora. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">3. Some of the most highest sand dunes reaching heights of 189 meters <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">4. The Sahara desert stretches over areas of Northern Africa <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">5.This place has mainly nomadic groups of people that move from place to place ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #d9176f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Average Rainfall** || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Rainy Season:15-25
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #d9176f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Description** || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">It's a rolling grassland, with a lot of trees. It's very pretty. It gets a good amount of rain in the dry season. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The sahara desert is one of the hotest deserts on earth. It is also reputeds to be one of the largest. Its climate is hot, and it recieves very little rainfall. The Sahara is one of natures wonders. It covers about 9,000,000. It is about as big as the continental United states. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Rainforests are thick, dense forests with a huge variety of plants and animals. Rainforests receive at least 80 inches of rain each year. There is a canopy above the rainforest, which is where most animals like to hang out. Underneath the canopy, which is the forest floor, receives little to no sunlight, and most of the vegetation is found there. ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #d9176f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Animals** list || # <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Rhinoceros
 * 1) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Cape buffalo
 * 2) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Giraffes
 * 3) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Zebra
 * 4) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Elephant
 * 5) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Cheetahs
 * 6) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Leopards
 * 7) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Lions
 * 8) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Meerkats
 * 9) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Dwarf Mongoose
 * 10) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Wild dog
 * 11) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Gazelle
 * 12) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Warthog
 * 13) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Hyena  || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">1 Scorpions
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #d9176f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Plants** || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">1.Senegal Gum Acacia
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #d9176f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Human Effects and Solutions** || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e12ca; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">We have helped and hurt the savanna in many ways. For example: people use the land for cattle grazing, which kills the grass and turns the savanna into the desert. They cause many fires that destroy the land. The use of wood for fuel also causes problems. A lot of people poach, and it makes animals go extinct. There have been nature preserves created, and biosphere preserves have been set up to protect the land. ||  || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Humans have cause a drastic effect on rainforest. People have cut down and cleared out rainforest all over the world. We are taking animals environments away ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #d9176f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Sahara** ||  || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">1 9,000,000 square kilometers