CW2 Jalcst-7742

From Environmental Technology

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  a. Wetlands are marshes, swamps, bogs, and similar areas found between dry and water along edges of streams, rivers, lakes, ponds, and coastlines.  Wetlands are either Estuarine-salt water wetlands, or Palastrine-freshwater wetlands.  Emerget which contains grasses, sedges, and other non-woody plants; Shrub-low to medium height woody plants; Forested-largely wooded swanmps and bottom land hardwood forests.
  b.  Protect and improve water quality; control flooding and Erosion; provide habitat for land and water wild life.
  c.  40%; 50; 2,700  
  d.  Protect water quality, create habitat, contribe to economy, air quality, encourage recreation.  
  e.  Producers-plants which produce food from soil for consumers; primary consumers-small bacteria and plankton which feed of the plants for nutrients; secondary consumers-small fish that eat the plankton and the other feeders; tetriary consumers-large fish that eat smaller fish.
  f. The entire food web would slowly deteriorate and diminish, the plankton are the first consumer if they were not there, the plants would grow unchecked and choke out oxygen.  If there was an overabundance, the algal bloom would be eaten, then the plankton die,decompose, taking the oxygen out of the water.
  g. This is mainly a coastal problem, something should be done, places such as California, Florida, Virginia, Louisiana, and Alabama have problems concerning the wetlands.