Joey Chase Kate

 North America in the Everglades national park in Florida

 Producers = organisms that take the suns energy and make their own food  Consumers = organisms that rely on other living things to provide food for them  Decomposers = organisms that break down dead plants and animals back into the ground to make their food

 Producers= trees,flowers,grass, plants  Consumers= fish, deer, alligators, snakes  Decomposers= mushrooms, mold, bacteria, worms

 Wet, grassy,  A lot of reptiles like alligators and snakes  Marshy  Not a lot of land animals because most of the land is water

living nonliving Cypress trees Crocodiles Worm-eating warbler Brow headed crow bird Floating logs (type of alligator) Snapping turtles Fish Alligators Crabs Snakes Epiphytes (plants that grow on trees) (E.T.C.) Water Drift wood Duckweed

 Swamp birds like the spoonbill and brow pelican use their beaks to spear fish to eat  The type of alligator called the floating log camouflages itself as a floating log so it will not be noticed and it can easily hunt for food.

 There is a type of alligator that is called a floating log.  Cypress trees can grow to over 1,000 years  Some trees like the bald cypress tree have “knees” which are part of its trunk that grows out of the water into an arch shape.

 Swamp by: Donald M. Silver  Swamp Life by: Theresa Greenway  Protecting Wetlands by: Andrew Cambell  ess_Swamp ess_Swamp  Wetlands Explorer by: Mary Quigley