Monday, March 30, 2009
Florida Everglades
This is a blog on my trip to the Florida Everglades. I am here to study the vast amount of water in the Everglades and how it creates the diverse variety of organisms living there. The Everglades are a large swampy area home to crocodiles, alligators, fish, birds, and many other living things. Every season flood waters carry nutrients from the flooded river onto the vast Everglade flood plain. This naturally makes the soil very fertile, and the grass very tall, and the animals that eat the grass very healthy, and the animals that eat those animals healthy, and so on and so forth.
While I was there, I must have seen at least 12 alligators and crocodiles.
The water in the everglades is some of the richest in nutrients anywhere, due to all of the decomposing organisms on the bottom of the river. What I observed from my trip to the everglades is that the quality of water determines the quality of all the life around it. When I was there, I also noticed lots of human development in the area. I picked up at least two pieces of trash in the river. If the humans continue to pollute the river, both by trash and by chemical runoff from nearby farms and buildings, it will ruin the water and kill the diverse life forms relying on the water. The fertile soil and plants will also cease to exist if this continues. The Everglades are very beautiful and very diverse. Please help to keep it that way. Thank you!
HERE IS A LINK TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE EVERGLADES
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/everglades/FEmain.html
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I personally liked the way you went into specific details about the nutrients the plants and animals get there. But the main reason I liked it was because you described the way those nutrients got their.
I know understand the differences between the Mariana trench and the evergreen glades. I also understand the significance of the forest and how exactly those particles of organisms survived.
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