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3.  North America in the Everglades national park in Florida

4.  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

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

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

7. 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

8.  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.

9.  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.

10.  Swamp by: Donald M. Silver  Swamp Life by: Theresa Greenway  Protecting Wetlands by: Andrew Cambell  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Cypr ess_Swamp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Cypr ess_Swamp  Wetlands Explorer by: Mary Quigley