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.
Threats. Overgrazing by livestock and plowing are the two greatest threats to temperate grasslands. Since the development of the steel plow much of these grasslands have been converted to agricultural lands because of their rich soil.About 47 percent of temperate grasslands have been converted to agriculture or urban development.he major temperate grasslands include the veldts of Africa, the pampas of South America, the steppes of Eurasia, and the plains of North America.