Intro to Wetlands

Wetlands are areas of land where water covers the soil – all year or just at certain times of the year.

• False

• True

Which of the following is not considered to be a "wetland"?

• swamps, marshes

• oceans

• billabongs, lakes, lagoons

• mangroves, coral reefs

Some wetlands are artificial

• True

• False

Wetlands do not provide habitat for animals and plants

• False

• True

Wetlands are a _________part of our natural environment.

• Wet

• Critical

• Pretty

What is a bottomland?

• Land at the bottom.

• The alternative Neverland.

• Land typically by a river and subject to overflow during floods.

• The source of a river.

Relating to or affected by tides...

• Pods

• Lunar

• Tidal

• Coastal

This is a wetland system unique to the American Southwest...

• cienegas

• coastal

• tidal

• postas

Depressional wetlands...

• playa

• prairie pothole

• reseca

• cienegas

Coastal...

• of or near a coast

• depressional wetland on the Texas Sand Sheet

• relating to or affected by tides

• relating to or situated on the banks of a river