Intro to Grasslands

2. Grasslands are interspersed with open-grown, widely spaced, orchard-like scattered trees or groupings of trees.
8. Open, rocky, barren areas dominated by drought-adapted forbs, warm-season grasses, and specialized fauna. They are relatively small, often isolated native grasslands on hilltops and south-facing slopes, where thin, dry soils and dry, harsh desert-like summer conditions harbor unique natural communities of plants and animals.
9. A plant that makes major growth during the cool portion of the year.
11. The interacting system of a biological community and its non-living environment.
13. A plant that typically lives three or more years.
15. The environment in which the life needs of an organism, population, or community are supplied.
16. A plant can remove nitrogen from the air and add it to the soil through its root system. Forage production needs to dilute the effects of endophyte-infected fescue.

1. A plant that completes most of its growth during the warm portion of the year, generally late spring and summer.
3. The stages through which an organism passes during its existence.
4. The sum total of plants that cover an area; plants in general.
5. Vegetation, or other material wild animals use for nesting, rearing young, resting, escaping predators, or protecting from adverse weather conditions.
6. A plant that completes its life cycle and dies in one year or less.
7. A tract of level to hilly land that has a dominance of grasses and forbs, a scarcity of shrubs, and is treeless. The natural plant community consists of various mixtures of tall, mid, and short-growing native species.
10. A plant that requires two years to complete its life cycle.
12. Land on which the existing plant cover is dominated by grasses and other herbaceous (non-woody) plants (forbs).
14. All land devoted to crop or livestock production, e.g., farmstead, drainage and irrigation ditches, ponds, cropland, and grazing land on farms.