Marsh

Swamps and marshes are ______________.

• wetlands

• plains

• oceans

What is an animal you would find in the swamp and marsh habitats?

• alligator

• kangaroo

• polar bear

In a saltwater marsh food web, phytoplankton is a...

• consumer

• scavenger

• decomposer

• producer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

In a saltwater marsh, all these are birds except the...

• herring gull

• snowy egret

• bobolink

• mummichog

A marsh has a greater proportion of open water surface

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Which is not a type of Marsh

• Salt marshes

• Freshwater marshes

• Saltwater tidal marshes

• Freshwater tidal marshes

The water of a marsh can be

• fresh

• brackish

• saline

• all of the above

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Salt marshe are nourished with sediment from inflowing rivers and streams.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Most salt marshes have a ___ topography with ___ elevations.

• low,high

• high, low

• low, low

• high, high

Marshes are formed by sediment

• erosion

• deposition

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2