Grasslands and Savannas quiz
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What 1930s disaster grew out of plowing up the Great Plains?
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Who are the horsemen of the South American pampas?
Answer: Gauchos
Why: Gauchos threw boleadoras, cords weighted with stones or iron balls that tangle around an animal's legs.
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Where did the tumbleweeds of Western films originally come from?
Answer: Russia
Why: When a Russian thistle matures it snaps off at the ground and rolls with the wind, scattering seeds as it goes.
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Which animals are the pronghorn's closest living relatives?
Answer: Giraffes
Why: Unlike true antelopes, pronghorns shed the outer sheath of their horns every fall and regrow it by summer.
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Where does a grass leaf grow from?
Answer: The base
Why: The tip is the oldest part of a grass leaf, so a grazing animal or a mower can remove it while the leaf keeps growing.
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Which language gave us the word savanna?
Answer: Taíno
Why: In the Caribbean, the Taíno word meant treeless grassland, and Spanish then passed it on to English.
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How many grassland birds did North America lose from 1970 to 2017?
Answer: About 700 million
Why: That is about a quarter of the roughly 2.9 billion birds North America lost overall in those same years.
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