https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6 Made with a dash of wit en-us 2017-04-04 14:40:32 UTC 2017-04-14 19:03:11 UTC hello@padlet.com 1026241292 https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164632420 Wetland ]]> 2017-04-04 14:41:16 UTC https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164632420 1026241292 https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164633367 Wetlands are areas of standing water that support aquatic plants. Marshes, swamps, and bogs are all considered wetlands.]]> 2017-04-04 14:44:46 UTC https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164633367 1026241292 https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164634739 Peat bogs are freshwater wetlands that develop in areas with standing water and low soil fertility. Marshes develop along the edges of rivers and lakes. A wetlands is a land area that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, it takes on the characteristics of a distinct ecosystem.

]]> 2017-04-04 14:50:05 UTC https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164634739 1026241292 https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164635332 Wetland form on floodplains where periodic flooding or high water tables provide sufficient moisture.]]> 2017-04-04 14:52:22 UTC https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164635332 1026241292 https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164635876  A constructed wetland is a wetlland created specifically for the purpose of treating wastewater, stormwater, acid mine drainage, or agricultural runoff .]]> 2017-04-04 14:54:47 UTC https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164635876 1026241292 https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164636379 Coastal plain marshes are an unusual and unique kind of seasonal Though called marshes, these wetlands are more like wet meadows, which are very wet in the spring, yet sometimes dry by late summer.]]> 2017-04-04 14:56:42 UTC https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164636379 1026241292 https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164637507 Wetlands are highly productive ecosystems that provide the world with nearly two-thirds of its fish harvest. They take many forms including marshes, estuaries,mudflats, mires, ponds, fens, pocosins, swamps, deltas, coral reefs, billabongs, lagoons, shallow seas, bogs, lakes, and floodplains.]]> 2017-04-04 15:01:13 UTC https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164637507 1026241292 https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164638261

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]]> 2017-04-05 14:26:07 UTC https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164889450 1026241292 https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164893272 Florida is home to 20% of all wetlands in the United States. ]]> 2017-04-05 14:36:13 UTC https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164893272 1026241292 https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164893474 ifferent types of wetlands, including swamps, marshes, bayheads, bogs, cypress domes, sloughs, wet prairies, river swamps, tidal marshes, mangrove swamps.]]> 2017-04-05 14:36:47 UTC https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164893474 1026241292 https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164894227 Temperature ranges from 50 degrees  to 57 degrees F'
The island of Ireland, with its cool, wet climate, has hundreds of quaking bogs. Unlike other wetlands, bogs usually are not agriculturally fertile. The amount of acid in the soil and water is generally higher than that in swamps or marshes.]]> 2017-04-05 14:38:33 UTC https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164894227 1026241292 https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164898836  human activities which can have lasting effects on wetlands ecosystems include stream channelization, dam construction, discharge of industrial wastes and municipal sewage and runoff urban and agricultural areas]]> 2017-04-05 14:50:24 UTC https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164898836 1026241292 https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164900499 The average amount of rainfall in swamps and wetlands is 1750mm-2000mm of rain per year]]> 2017-04-05 14:54:50 UTC https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164900499 1026241292 https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164901094 wetland animals are fish, crabs, alligators, snakes, snapping turtles, crocodile,and lizards.]]> 2017-04-05 14:56:41 UTC https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164901094 1026241292 https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164902895 Wetlands plants are distinctive grasses and common reed and water couch, sedges, spike-rushes, aquatic macrophytes, herbs and forbs, algae and mosses. ]]> 2017-04-05 15:01:33 UTC https://padlet.com/1026241292/pzyk90gkvwf6/wish/164902895