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From Environmental Technology
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A1.
Wetlands are the transition link between water and land.
A2.
Wetlands are characterized as undesirable, unappealing infestations harboring snakes, insects, and rodents. They are also characterized by their vegetation: Emergent-marshes and medows, Shrub-swamps and bogs.
A3.
The types of wetlands are: marshes, swamps, rivers lakes, ponds, and coastlines.
B.
The wetlands functions are to protect and improve water quality, coastal flooding, and erosion, and to provide habitat for terrestrial and aquatic wildlife.
C1.
Forest percentage loss is 35%.
C2.
There are more than 50 tree species and more than 2,700 differnet plant species.
D.
A forests functions are to protect water quality, creat habitat for fish and wildlife, improve air quality, encourage recreation, and contribute to the economy.
E.
Producers: plants and algae that creat their own food. Consumers: organisms that eat plant or other animals. Decomposers: digest the bodies of dead plants and animals and the waste products of both.
F1.
If the entire system of plankton were removed then slowly, but surely, all water and land life would die due to the distruction of the food chain.
F2.
If there were an over abundance of plankton then all water life would die because no creature could consume, decompose, or even use the plankton fast enough to get rid of it.
G1.
Both island and coastal are effected by the disappearing wetlands.
G2.
Yes this is a problem, many organisms live in and depend of the wetlands in order to survive.
G3.
This is happening all over the world due to the Earths distruction, not just in Chesapeake Bay.
