Question

The grasslands of South America are known as ……………………………….
(A) Prairies
(B) Downs
(C) Pampas
(D) Veld

Answer 1

Hint: Grassland is a wide region, covered in native grass. Grassland may look flat or have rolling hills. grassland covers one fourth of earth’s land and can be found on every continent excluding Antarctica. Grassland occurs where it is more wet for deserts but excessive dry for forest.

Complete step by step solution
Grasslands are known as transitional biomes, that means that they are generally found between desert and forest. There are many kinds of grassland on all sides of the world.

There are two types of grassland
1. Tropical grassland
2. Temperate grassland

Tropical grassland Tropical grasslands are biomes located in warm regions, distinguished by having two very distinct seasons. Rainy and short, dry and very long. It is located close to the equator, between the tropic of cancer and tropic of Capricorn. Example, South America, India, Australia.

Temperate grassland: It is large, flat lands and homes to large communities of organisms. This soil is rich.so, different types of grasses and shrubs grow. It is located north of the tropic of cancer and south of the tropic of Capricorn. Example, the veldts of Africa, the pampas of south America, the steppes of Eurasia, the prairie of north America.

The grassland of south America is called pampas. It covers a region more than sq km. This region has a warm climate and rainfall is well distributed throughout the year.

Thus the option (C) is correct

Note: Pampa means plain. foxes, bush dogs, viscachas, guanaco,skunks and animals are living in pampas. It covered nearly one third of Argentina’s land area. Pampas grass is often known as cortaderia selloana. It is also seen in suburban gardens all over the world.