Being eco-friendly includes recycling, but there are other ways to guard the planet's health. In recent years, terms like going green and eco-friendly have become buzz words on talk shows, commercials and product packaging. The term eco-friendly has been used for so many different products and practices, its meaning is in danger of being lost.
The abiotic factors of temperate grasslands include low rainfall, moderate humidity, large temperature differences between winter and summer, seasonal fires and rich nutrients in the soil's upper layers. Temperate zones are regions between the tropics and poles, and abiotic factors are an ecosystem's nonliving parts.
The animals that live in temperate grasslands have adapted to the dry, windy conditions. There are grazing animals like gazelle and deer; burrowing animals such as mice and jack rabbits; and predators such as snakes and coyotes.emperate grasslands, which average between 10 and 30 inches (25 and 75 centimeters) of rain per year, have shorter grasses, sometimes just a few millimeters.