Post on 02-Jan-2016
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A Virtual Fieldtrip
Created by Autumn Huey
• Southern Florida• West of Miami
http://www.everglades.national-park.com/location.htm
• Wetlands• A combination of
fresh water and saw grass
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/everglades/FEeverglades1.html
• Usually warm or hot year-round
• Usually humid and sticky
• Great deal of rain and thunderstorms, especially in the summer
http://www.everglades.national-park.com/weather.htm
• Major landscape in Everglades
• Shallow waters• Plains covered with
saw grass, which can get up to 6 ft. tall!!
• 60 miles wide and 300 miles long http://www.nrdc.org/water/everglades/qever.asp
Saw Grasshttp://www.sfwmd.gov/org/wrp/wrp_evg/2_wrp_evg_info/photos/hires/img0056.jpg
• Like a labyrinth of tangled trees
• Alligators, crocodiles, sea turtles, and manatees make their homes here
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0214223/bhflorafauna.html
http://www.americanparknetwork.com/parkinfo/ev/flora/
• Made up of Florida slash pine trees
• Rocky and rough• Raccoons, reef
gecko, opossums panthers, owls, etc. live here
http://www.americanparknetwork.com/parkinfo/ev/flora/ Slash Pines
http://www.terragalleria.com/parks/np-image.ever1974.html
• Trees grow on limestone mounds
• Oak, mahogany, and gumbo-limbo trees
• Home to racoons, snakes, tree frogs, deer, rabbits, bobcats, etc.
http://www.americanparknetwork.com/parkinfo/ev/flora/
http://www.eng.fiu.edu/cegrad/g_photo.htm
• Made up of 100 keys
• Shallow waters• Many different
species of birds live here
• Crocodiles, sharks, sea turtles, and dolphins make their homes in the bay also
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0214223/bhflorafauna.html
http://www.americanparknetwork.com/parkinfo/ev/flora/
http://www.env.duke.edu/wetland/hyflbay.htm
Hope you enjoyed your trip!
http://www.greenworks.tv/watershed_weekly/nationals/florida.html