1. Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes

2. Climate / Location Location: Southwest Texas
Average Precipitation:
Temperature:
Summer: degrees
Winter: degrees
Wind speeds: 7.6

3. Soil Vertisols Mollisols
Vertisols: are clay rich soils that can shrink and swell. During dry period the soil shrinks and cracks are formed. The soil only expands in wet moisture
Mollisols: they are soils of the grassland horizons. They are featured by thick , black horizons. They are the most important soil in the world for agricultural purposes.
Vertisols
Mollisols

4. Landforms
Barrier island, estuaries, bays, tall grass prairies, salt grass marshes, rivers are some of the landforms that can be found in a gulf coast marshes and prairies.
Rivers
Estuaries
Bays
Barrier island
Salt grass marshes
Prairies

5. Animals
The gulf coast prairies and marshes contained a vast diversity of animals. Some of the animals are rosette spoonbills, whooping cranes, muskrats, bull frogs, pelicans, alligators and much more.
whooping cranes
pelicans
alligators
bull frogs
rosette spoonbills
muskrats

6. Plants
The gulf coast marshes and prairies contains a huge diversity of plants. Some of the plants are Meadow pink, Coral bean, Sugarberry, Water oak, Spider lily.
Water oak
Coral bean
sugarberry
Pink meadow
Spider lily