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They form in dry places, where little to none rain falls, and were the sun shines mostly throughout the entire year.

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Prairies are formed over thousands of years by sediments of mountains and shield regions that erode, filling in what were once bodies of water until the sediments become so plentiful that it creates new land

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Grasslands are areas where the vegetation is dominated by grasses (Poaceae) and other herbaceous (non-woody) plants (forbs). However, sedge (Cyperaceae) and rush (Juncaceae) families can also be found. Grasslands occur naturally on all continents except Antarctica. Intemperate latitudes, such as northwestern Europe and the Great Plains and California in North America, native grasslands are dominated by perennial bunch grass species, whereas in warmer climates annual species form a greater component of the vegetation.[1]

Grasslands are found in most ecoregions of the Earth. For example there are five terrestrial ecoregion classifications (subdivisions) of thetemperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome ('ecosystem'), which is one of eight terrestrial ecozones of the earths surface

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Glacial deposits and lack of orogenic episodes create prairies landforms. Creation of the ecosystem of a prairie is caused by nearby landforms (mountains) that create a rain shadow, and therefore no trees grow and only grass.

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