Use three visual images, either drawn or cut out from magazines, to create a central focus to your page. If you use a computer image, personalize it to make it your own.
--1--Place five essential vocabulary words/phrases around the images. These terms/words/phrases should express the main ideas, your impressions, feelings, or thoughts about what you have seen or read.
--1--Write the main idea of the reading.
--1--Write two higher-level questions and answer them. (NOT questions about straight facts!)
What life lives in Mangroves and how do Mangroves support life living in its ecosystem.
Lots and Lots of life live among these salt-tolerant trees. Just one of …show more content…
They act like a dense wall against the weather. Another important benefit is that Mangroves provide many fibers, home for exotic seafood, medicines, and fruits. They also balance out shores by catching sand and other sediments and slowly building land. Mangroves improve the quality of water by filtering the water it’s in. Lastly, they reduce the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. In total, these mangrove ecosystems provide many communities with an estimated billions of dollars worth of free …show more content…
That’s a rate of loss that exceeds the disappearance of tropical rainforests.”
Complex Shelter Tropical Vanishing Barriers
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Through a progression of adaptations, including a filtration system that keeps out a significant part of the salt in the water and a perplexing root framework that holds the mangrove upright in the moving sand and rock where land and water meet. Furthermore, as researchers are finding, mangrove swamps are critical to our own well-being and to the well-being of the planet.
What life lives in Mangroves and how do Mangroves support life living in its ecosystem?
Lots and Lots of life live among these salt-tolerant trees. Just one of the many species of birds that live among these trees are the Brown Pelicans that nest and feed in the tops of these trees. The Mudflat Fiddler Crab is also found in this ecosystem. The Mudflat Crabs have large flaunting claws. Another species of crab is also found here and this one climbs trees! The Mangrove Tree Crab digs its claw into the bark and clings to the tree. Many researchers have also spotted the crabs eating seahorses. Lastly, the Spectacled Caiman also can be found here. The “bony ridge between its eyes” causes the caiman to look as if it work glasses, thus the name: Spectacled