Facts about Pollution Pollution prevention |Interesting facts | |Did you know? | |Every year approximately 75‚000 litres of detergents and 12‚000 kilograms of dirt and other pollutants flow into North Shore | |City’s streams‚ lake and beaches from people washing their
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the biotic and abiotic community. The ecosystems of a particular biome tend to have plants with similar growth forms and animals with similar feeding habits. Major biomes include tropical rain forest‚ northern coniferous forest‚ tundra‚ desert‚ grassland‚ savanna‚ and chaparral. The tropical rain forest is the most complex biome in the world. This biome is found at low elevations in the tropics where it is always warm and wet. Rain forests are characterized by a dense tree canopy tree top branches
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germinate and adapt to living under these conditions‚ therefore humans have to ignite fires to maintain the routine of fire in fire-scarce biomes. The biomes of South Africa that fire plays the most important role in are the Fynbos‚ Savanna‚ and Grassland biomes. There are four other biomes that rarely burn. Fire is the most important in the Fynbos biome; the reasons will be touched upon in the following paragraph. Fynbos (fine-leaved bush) biome This biome describes evergreen scrublands with
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Tropical grasslands (Savanna) Climate There are two main seasons in the African savanna- winter‚ or the “dry season”‚ and summer‚ also known as the “wet season”. They are called dry and wet according to the amount of precipitation each season receives. Most of the annual precipitation in the savanna occurs during summer (approx. April to October)‚ while during the winter (approx. November to March) there is almost no rain at all. The annual precipitation is
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A Biome is a large natural area on Earth where specific types of plants and vegetation grow. (Kalman‚ 1997). It is a large area where the form of life of climatic vegetation is uniform and also reflects the key features of the climate which also maps out the structural form and nature of the habitat for animals. (Odum‚ 1997). The climate‚ soil-types and animal life are all constituents of a Biome. There can be numerous ecosystems in any single Biome. This is due to the fact that there are many different
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* TROPICAL GRASSLANDS (SAVANNAH) This is grassland with scattered individual trees. They cover almost half the surface of Africa*(about % million sq. miles generally central Africa) and large areas of Australia‚ South America and India. REGIONAL CLIMATE The climate is warm and hot Rainfall is about 50.8 to 127 cm annually. SOIL ORDERS The soil is porous with rapid water drainage. Contains a thin layer of humus. DORMINANT GROWTH FORMS Rhodes grass and red oat grass‚ in East Africa Star grasses and
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The soil of the savanna is porous‚ with rapid drainage of water. It has only a thin layer of humus‚ which provides vegetation with nutrients. Savannas are sometimes classified as forests. Savanna is grassland with scattered individual trees. Savannas of one sort or another cover almost half the surface of Africa and large areas of Australia‚ South America‚ and India. Climate is the most important factor in creating a savanna. Savannas are always found in warm or hot climates where the annual rainfall
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The African Savanna is a tropical grassland. African Savannas get lots of rainfall. In the beginning of May is when the rainy seasons start. It ends in November‚ and they usually get about fifteen to twentyfive feet of rain a month. In the dry season they only get about four inches of rain. In the Northern hemisphere the dry season is from April to September. But in the the Southern hemisphere its from October to March. The African savanna comes in a wet-dry tropical climate. One way
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his freedom so that he is physically trapped yet mentally free. The reader sees what the jaguar sees in his own mind through series of metaphors. ‘His stride is wilderness of freedom’ suggests the jaguar moving freely in his natural habitat‚ the grasslands and plains of Africa. In ‘ the world rolls under the long thrust of his heel’ the jaguar is moving so swiftly and powerfully that we see only blurs of landscape. Our focus is on the sleek‚ muscle body of the jaguar. The final metaphor ‘over the
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be found between a tropical rainforest and desert biome. A savanna is one type of grassland biome. The temperatures of savannas differ according to its season. During the dry season the temperatures are either very hot or cold. In the wet season the temperature is usually warm. If the savanna biome were to receive a little less rain it would become a desert. If it got a little more it would become temperate grassland. Savannas are typically dry receiving less than 30 inches of rain on average in a
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