Estuary Marine environments begin here Areas where freshwater rivers or streams empty into areas of saltwater Mobile Bay is an estuary that empties into.

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Estuary Marine environments begin here Areas where freshwater rivers or streams empty into areas of saltwater Mobile Bay is an estuary that empties into the Gulf of Mexico, and then to the Atlantic Ocean

What Are Estuaries? Where the freshwater of a river meets the salty water of the ocean They mix here forming brackish water, which just means a mixture of salt and freshwater. You live in the 4th largest estuary system in the US.

Estuaries Estuaries are one of the most productive environments on Earth. They often contain many wetlands. Many marine animals, such as fish & shrimp, begin their lives in estuaries safe from predators. Without the wetlands (in the estuary) these animals would disappear.

Endangered species of the Mobile Bay Estuary Federally Endangered or Threatened Species: Mammals: Alabama beach mouse West Indian manatee Birds: bald eagle peregrine falcon piping plover red-cockaded woodpecker wood stork Fish: Gulf sturgeon Federally Endangered/Threatened Species: Reptiles: Alabama red-bellied turtle eastern indigo snake gopher tortoise loggerhead sea turtle Insects: American Burying beetle Plants: Alabama canebrake pitcher-plant American chaffseed Louisiana quillwort Mohr's Barbara's buttons

Wetlands Wetlands: an area of land where the water level is near or above the surface of the ground for most of the year. The United States is losing more than 80,000 acres of wetland habitat annually. That's more than seven football fields each day!wetland habitat

Wetlands So why are they so important? support a variety of animal and plant life control flooding by storing flood water Filter water ($2,000 worth of water treatment per acre annually X 160,000 acres in Mobile Bay alone!) replenish ground water

Two types of wetlands in the US: a.Marshes: treeless wetland find them along the shores of lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, & river deltas plants found there depends on the depth of the water & location; grasses, reeds, bulrushes, & wild rice animals found there: muskrats, turtles, frogs, and red-winged blackbirds b. Swamps: a wetland ecosystem where trees & vines grow occur in low lying areas & beside slow-moving rivers are flooded only part of the year depending on rainfall plants & animals found there: willow trees, bald cypress, water tupelos, oaks, elms, poison ivy, Spanish moss, water lilies, fish, snakes, birds

Saltwater Ecosystems Saltwater is high in density and sinks to the bottom of oceans, leaving freshwater on top. Largest in the world are the 5 oceans Estuaries, coral reefs, algae producing

River Delta A delta is a landform where the mouth of a river flows into an ocean, sea, desert, estuary or lake Sediment carried by the river and deposited as the water current ends Nile River Delta

Watershed the region of land whose water drains into a specified body of water A drainage basin such as dog river which gets the end results of streams around Mobile county

Other Terms Tributary- a stream that flows into a lake or larger stream Load- materials carried by a stream Sediment-eroded soil or material Erosion – the process where soil is transported or removed Deposition – is the process where material lays to rest Salinity- a measure of the amount of salt in a given amount of liquid Flora - all plant life occurring in an area or time period Fauna -a typical collection of animals found in a specific time or place, –Two Types of Plankton Zooplankton- the (small animal) consumers that feed on phytoplankton, Phytoplankton- microscopic organisms that float near the surface of the water; they make their own food like plants on land do

Other Marine Environments River – bodies of flowing water moving in one direction Photosynthesis - is the process by which plants, some bacteria, use the energy from sunlight to produce sugar, Oxbow Lake – a lake formed when a river changes its course and the source is diverted away. Wetlands – areas of standing water (swamp, marsh, everglades)