The grasslands found in Europe are known as ___________

The correct answer is Steppes.Key PointsSteppes:-

• The Steppes is a belt of grassland that extends some 5,000 miles (8,000 km) from Hungary in the west through Ukraine and Central Asia to Manchuria in the east.
• Steppes are practically treeless and grasses are much shorter.
• Long Prairie grass is tall, fresh, and nutritious.
• They are found in regions like Russian Ukraine and some areas of Asiatic Steppes.
• Short Steppe type of grass prevails in continental interiors of Asia.
• Temperate grasslands vary in their appearance with seasons.
• Towards the equator, steppe grass becomes shorter and sparser, till it merges into the desert with thorny scrub.
• With an increase in precipitation polewards, it gives rise to wooded steppes.

Additional Information Prairie:-

• Prairie is a level or rolling grassland, especially that found in central North America.
• Decreasing amounts of rainfall, from 100 cm (about 40 inches) at the forested eastern edge to less than 30 cm (about 12 inches) at the desertlike western edge, affect the species composition of the prairie grassland.
• The vegetation is composed primarily of perennial grasses, with many species of flowering plants of the pea and composite families.
• Coastal prairie, Pacific or California prairie, Palouse prairie, and desert plains grassland are primarily covered with combinations of mixed-grass and shortgrass species.

Pampas:

• The Pampas, also known as the Pampa and Spanish La Pampa, are large plains in central Argentina that stretch westward from the Atlantic coast to the Andean foothills and are bordered by Patagonia (north) and the Gran Chaco (south).
• The word for "flat surface" in Quechua is where the name originates.
• The Pampas gradually descend in a northwest-to-southeast direction.
• The majority of the area looks to be totally flat, with the exception of a few sierras in the northwest and south.
• The term "Pampas" is also used to describe a number of smaller plains in other parts of South America, including the desert in northern Chile.

The Savannas

• In general, savannas grow in tropical regions 8° to 20° from the Equator.
• Conditions are warm to hot in all seasons, but significant rainfall occurs for only a few months each year—about October to March in the Southern Hemisphere and April to September in the Northern Hemisphere.
• Mean annual precipitation is generally 80 to 150 cm.