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What is a Wetland?

Here is a photo of a wetland in the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area. What do you see?  Do you know what makes it a wetland?

 

 

Watch this short video from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to learn more about wetlands: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/wetland.html.

Then, see if you can answer these questions:

1. What is a wetland?
2. Can you name a place where wetlands are found?
3. What is something wetlands do to help an ecosystem?

 

 

 

Answers:

1. What is a wetland?

A wetland is an area of land that is covered by water at least part of the year. Wetlands have unique plants that are adapted to live in wet soil.

 

2. Can you name a place where wetlands are found?

Wetlands are found in many places including along waterways and in floodplains. Bonus: Wetlands can be found on every continent in the world except Antarctica.

 

3. What is something wetlands do to help an ecosystem?

Wetlands do many things to help an ecosystem including filtering water, providing flood and erosion control, and providing habitat for animals.