Cypress Swamp

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Ecosystem’s Location North America in the Everglades

national park in Florida

Define Producers, Consumers, & Decomposers 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

Examples of producers, consumers & decomposers Producers= trees ,flowers ,grass , plants

Consumers= fish , deer, alligators , snakes

Decomposers= mushrooms , mold , bacteria , worms

Life in the Ecosystems

Wet, grassy, A lot of reptiles like alligators and

snakes Marshy Not a lot of land animals because most

of the land is water

Living and Nonliving things

living nonliving

Cypress treesCrocodilesWorm-eating warblerBrow headed crow birdFloating logs (type of alligator)Snapping turtlesFishAlligatorsCrabs SnakesEpiphytes (plants that grow on trees)(E.T.C.)

WaterDrift woodDuckweed

How living things meet their needs

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.

Amazing Facts 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.

Bibliography Swamp by: Donald M. Silver Swamp Life by: Theresa Greenway Protecting Wetlands by: Andrew

Cambell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Cypr

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Wetlands Explorer by: Mary Quigley