EVERGLADES

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EVERGLADES

• BY
• JACOB S. JACOB N. EDWARD H. MARCO S.

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Everglades

• Environment

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Environment

• The temperature there is usually 80f
• The humidly is usually 80
• It feels like you are in water
• The floods help the Everglades

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How Humans Affect The Everglades

• These Are some ways we are destroying the
  everglades because of us the everglades is only
  half the size it was.
• We keep littering there.
• We kill animals that live there.
• It has been like this for over 50 years

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• Main Organisms
• These are some Important plants Duckweed,
  Blue-green algae, and saw grass.
• Bacteria and earthworms are Decomposers.

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Important Organisms

• Important animals are the Florida water rat
  because a lot of animals eat it, Apple snail
  because it is the only thing the Snail Kite eats
  The alligator eats fish snakes. The mosquito
  fish eat mosquitoes drifting on the water.

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Main Abiotic Factors

• The Everglades is normally warm year round.
  Even when it is dry it still rains a little. Some
  of the abiotic factors are temperature and water
  level. The water level effects this ecosystem
  because the fish wont be able to swim and animals
  wont be able to bathe. We need the water level in
  the Everglades to get bigger.

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Three Producers Consumers

• Three of the consumers and producers are
• Producers
• Duckweed
• Bald Cypress
• Gumbo-Limbo
• Consumers
• Florida Panther
• Snail Kite
• Florida Water Rat

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Food Web

• Panther American Alligator Cottonmouth Snake
• Mink Roseate Spoonbill Racoon
• Bladderwort Duckweed Fragrant Waterlily

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FUN FACTS

• Lots of people think the everglades is a swamp
  but its actually a river
• There is 1,399,078.26 acres in the everglades
• There is over 50 different species of reptiles in
  the everglades
• The anhinga spreads its wings to dry in the sun
• Alligators WILL hurt you

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Recourses

• www.fossweb.com
• www.google.com
• www.coft.com/everglades