Wetlands
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Wetlands is an area of land whose soil is saturated with moisture either permanently or seasonally. Such areas may also be covered partially or completely by shallow pools of water. Wetlands include swamps, marshes, and bogs, among others. The water found in wetlands can be saltwater, freshwater, or brackish.
Wetlands is an area of land whose soil is saturated with moisture either permanently or seasonally. Such areas may also be covered partially or completely by shallow pools of water.
Wetlands include swamps, marshes, and bogs, among others. The water found in wetlands can be saltwater, freshwater, or brackish.
Wetlands are considered the most biologically diverse of all ecosystems. Plant life found in wetlands includes mangrove, water lilies, cattails, sedges, tamarack, black spruce, cypress, gum, and many others. Animal life includes many different amphibians, reptiles, birds, insects, and mammals.
[edit] Also See
- Snow
- Snowpack
- Clouds
- Evaporation
- Freezing Point / Freeze
- Moisture
- Rime
- Sublimation
- Water
- Water Vapor
- Atmosphere
- Fog
- Permafrost
- Humidity
- Freezing-point depression
- Phase change
- Volume
- Latent heat
- Atmospheric convection
- Lake
- Alpine permafrost
- Rivers
- Isotherm
- Glaciation
- Mountain
- Ice age
- Physical Features of Mountains
- Defining Mountain Regions
- Frozen Ground
- Cryosphere
- What Affects Frozen Ground
- What is the Cryosphere
- Evaporation
- Freezing Point / Freeze
- Snow line
- Frost line
[edit] Reference
- Wikipedia Wetlands [1]
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