| A | B |
|---|
| herbaceous | soft stemmed plants (cattail, sedge, bulrush, saw grass) |
| muskrat | large mouse ; eats cattails |
| slough | a swampy place or marsh inlet; a place of deep mud or mire (pronounced "slew"); |
| one of the largest energy producers of any ecosystem | marsh (because more producers than consumers can eat) |
| Florida everglades | largest grass marsh in North America |
| flat river that flows in a sheet 40 miles wide and 6 inches deep | Florida everglades(2) |
| largest single body of organic soil in the world | Flordia everglades (3) ("sea of grass") |
| hammocks | "tree islands" form on this (land raised at least one foot above sea level of the marsh) |
| heads | tree islands form in areas that are wet depressions that have filled with a rich layer of organic matter from decayed vegetation |
| the everglades grows on a bed of: | limestone covered by peat, marl and soil |
| marl | loose crumbly deposit that contains high amount of calcium carbonate |
| keystone species of the Florida everglades | alligator |
| swamps | wetlands (dominant vegetation: woody plants (trees and shrubs)) |
| example of a cypress swamp | The Dismal swamp (NC and VA) |
| bald cypress | a coniferous tree (known for their "knees"); looses its needles in the fall |
| tree common in Shrub swamps | Alder tree (cannot tolerate their roots being wet); legume which hads N2 to soil |
| legume trees | have nodules on roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria; adding nitrogen back to the soil |
| pocosin swamps | characterized by "spongy soils" (peat) |
| carnivorous plants found: | pocosins |
| fire-dependent ecosystem | pocosins and longleaf pines |
| carolina bays | consists of thousands of soft, oval elliptical-shaped depressions |
| vernal pools | carolina bays which are filled with rainwater part of the year |
| southern bottomland forest | wetlands along a river which floods several times a year (good for farming) |
| levee | ridge running parallel to river which floods periodically |
| "ridge and swale" topography | alternating high and low ground by river that has flooded often |
| an animal species which frequents Carolina Bays | black bear |
