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Grasslands are vast areas covered mostly by grass and grass-like plants.These areas don’t receive enough rainfall to grow trees or support a forest, but they don’t get too little either to become a desert.

In the US they’re called prairies, in Australia, they’re called rangelands, while in South America they’re called pampas, llanos, and cerrados.

There are two main types of grasslands: tropical or savanna and temperate grasslands.