Should you Drain or Keep Wetlands

1. Should you Drain or Keep Wetlands By: Natavia

2. Types of wetlands • Swamps • Marshes • Bogs • You can tell the difference by the types of plants, animals, and its characteristics

3. This is : A swampA bog A marsh

4. What does a wetland do for us? Page 1 • It helps prevent erosion (http://techalive.mtu.edu/meec/module12/ErosionProtection.htm) • It collects the runoff pollution (http://www.epa.gov/nps/MMGI/Chapter4/ch4-8.html) • Wetlands filter different harmful substances (http://techalive.mtu.edu/meec/module12/Chemicalfunctionsofwetlands.htm)

5. What does a wetland do for us? Page 2 • It helps prevent floods {not all } (http://techalive.mtu.edu/meec/module12/PhysicalHydrologicalfunctionsofwetlands.htm) • It saves us money (http://techalive.mtu.edu/meec/module12/SavingMoney.htm)

6. What does a wetland do for animals ? • Provides an area for animals to live (http://techalive.mtu.edu/meec/module12/Biologicalfunctionsofwetlands.htm) • Ex.1 Migrating birds • Ex.2 Alligators • Ex. 3 Ducks • Provide food for different animals

7. What I think • You shouldn’t drain wetlands • Wetlands are very important to us • People should care about helping wetlands

8. What would happen if you drained wetlands ? • You wouldn’t have a a filter for harmful substances • More polluted air and water • The wetland animals would eventually become extinct • The animals living there would not have a home • More floods

9. Don’t drain wetlands