1. Wetlands
By: Jenae Watson
Tommy Toole

2. Types of Wetlands
Marshes
Swamps
Bogs
Fen

3. Swamps

5. Climate
The climate of a swamp is usually damp and muggy.
The temperatures range from 55 degrees Celsius to 85 degrees Celsius.
A swamps water has a pH of approximately 7.2.

6. Human Devastation Humans harvest valuable lumber from swamps.
Nutrient-rich soils present in swamps cause then to be drained and cleared for agriculture and other development.
Over 70% of the nations floodplain forest swamps have been lost.

7. Swamp Vegetation Cypress Trees Tupelo Skunk Cabbage
Cypress ( Taxodium spp.)
Tupelo (Nyssa Aquatica)
Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)

8. Swamps Animals Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotary citrea)
Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)
Black Caiman (Melanosuchus niger)

9. The End