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| has trees and shrubs growing in it. It is flooded at least part of the year. |
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| Is too wet for trees and shrubs. Grassy plants like cattails and reeds grow in it. |
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| Usually covered with moss. When the plants die, layers are built on top of each other forming peat. |
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| a large reptile with a long tail and thick skin. |
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| A kind of evergreen tree with small needles and woody cones. |
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| A kind of heron with white feathers. |
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| A kind of plant with grasslike, sharp-spined leaves |
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| A simple plant life that lives in water. |
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| A breeding place or colony of birds |
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| Threatened with extinction |
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| Safe, protected places for wildlife where hunting is illegal. |
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| snow, rain, fog, or mist that contains harmful gases released by power plants and cars |
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| Biodegradable (definition) |
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| Able to be broken down naturally into materials not harmful to the earth. |
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| Conservation (definition) |
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| The act of saving and guarding wildlife, land, and other natural resources |
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| The study of how living things relate to their environment and each other |
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| Endangered Species (definition) |
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| An animal or plant whose numbers are so few that it is in danger of dying out completely |
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| All the surroundings and conditions in which plants and animals exist |
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| Extinct species (definition) |
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| an animal or plant that no longer exists on earth |
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| Greenhouse effect (definition) |
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| The warming of the earth that occurs when sunlight is trapped in a layer of gases that surround the earth. |
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| the place where an animal or plant naturally lives |
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| a place in the earth's atmosphere where the layer of protective gas called ozone is being eaten away by gases used in refrigerators, air conditioners, and other manufactured items. |
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| A chemical used to kill animal pests (usually insects) |
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| Thick wet forests that are homes to over half the plant and animal species on earth |
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| to process waste products so they can be reused or disposed of without harming the environment |
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| Crocodile's mouth and jaws... |
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are long and narrow and shaped like a triangle.
When mouth is shut, the large fourth tooth on each side of the lower jaw sticks out.
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| Alligator's mouth and jaw... |
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is broadly rounded. Its long teeth fit into a pit or pocket inside the upper jaw.
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| "No grin or large fourth tooth" describes... |
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| "Grinning expression with fourth tooth showing" describes... |
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| in freshwater lakes, swamps, and marshes throughout many southern states. |
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| only in the salty marshes of the most southern part of Florida. |
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Are buried in a low mound of sand, and are
left in a hidden nest unguarded |
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| are left in a nest built of decaying vegetation. The females will guard the nest from a distance until the eggs hatch. |
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| Adult alligator is what color? |
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| Adult crocodile is what color? |
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| Varies from gray to olive-gray. |
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| Wildlife found in a wetland? |
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Fish and Insects (dragonfly), Turtles,
Amphibians (frogs, toads, salamanders...)
Birds, Minks, Otters, Beavers,
Deer, black bears, ducks,
Raccoons, Opossums, Panthers
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| Vegetation found in wetlands? |
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Cattails, sedges, rushes, arrowheads
Water lilies, Algae, Marsh marigolds,
Irises, Fringed Genetians, and other flowers. |
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| These may be harmful to Wetlands environment... |
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Acid Rain, Pollution, Smog, Pesticides, Ozone hole,
Greenhouse effect, Wastes, Harmful gases |
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