Estimated Time: 10 minutes

Dorothy lived in the middle of the wide, flat Kansas prairies. The land stretched out in every direction with almost nothing to break it up—no hills, no forests, not even many trees. Just grass and sky. In the story, this made her home feel lonely and gray, especially when the sun dried up the land and turned everything the same dusty color.

What Dorothy didn’t know is that this land is actually part of something much bigger—it’s called a temperate grassland biome. That’s a fancy way of saying it’s a place with mild weather, tall grasses, and lots of animals and plants that are used to windy, open spaces.

Let’s learn more about what it’s like to live in this type of environment by watching the video below.

What type of biome do you live in?