Wetland & Estuary Notes

Multiple Select

What is a wetland?

• an area of land that is underwater during part of the year.

• an area of land that drain to a body of water

• a measure of how clean the water is in an area

• a transition zone between dry land & bodies of water

Match

Match the following

• Bog

• marsh

• swamp

mosses & peat; gets water through rain

tall grases, aquifers & surface water

flooded forest

• mosses & peat; gets water through rain

• tall grases, aquifers & surface water

• flooded forest

Match

Match the pictures to the type of wetland

swamp

marsh

bog

• swamp

• marsh

• bog

Multiple Select

Select the wetland functions (3)

• add pollution

• filter pollution

• reduce runoff & erosion

• reduce flooding

• recycling center for organic waste

Match

Match the following

• an area where freshwater & salt water mix

• transition zone between dry land & water

• Largest estuary in US

• Largest watershed in VA

• Local watershed

estuary

wetland

Chesapeake Bay

James River

Potomac River

• estuary

• wetland

• Chesapeake Bay

• James River

• Potomac River

Multiple Select

Select the functions of estuaries. (3)

• habitats & nursery

• reduce run-off, erosion & flooding

• recycling center for organic waste

• filter pollution

• storm buffer