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Water Biomes
Title: Water Biomes
Category: Society & Culture / Environment
Details: Words: 779 | Pages: 3.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Water Biomes
Water Biomes
Marshland is covered with grasses, reeds, sedges, and cattails. These plants all have their
roots in soil covered or saturated with water and its leaves held above water.Marshes may
be freshwater or salt. Freshwater marshes develop along the shallow edges of lakes and
slow-moving rivers, forming when ponds and lakes become filled with sediment. Salt
marshes occur on coastal tidal flats. Inland salt marshes occupy the edges of lakes. They
affect the …showed first 75 words of 779 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 779 total…the lugworm, which burrows through the sand and feeds on organic matter; and the
coquina clam Donax, which advances up the beach and retreats with the tides. Among
the sand grains live small copepods and worms that feed on microscopic algae, bacteria,
and organic matter.
On the lower beach, which remains uncovered for only a short period of time, live
clams, crabs, starfish, and sand dollars, whose calcareous skeletons lie partially buried in
the sand.
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