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12. If you were to find yourself on a boat in the Chesapeake Bay, what aquatic ecosystem would you be in? What ecosystem would you be in if you were in the middle of Everglades National Park?
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Various ecosystems can take place where the ocean meets land; a sandy beach, intertidal mudflat, rocky shore or tidal estuary. An estuary is a body of water in coastal regions that is surrounded partly by land with access to open ocean and a large fresh water …show more content…
Salt marsh is an ecosystem flooded and drained by salt water as a result of tides. They are usually muddy due to the soil composed of deep peat and mud. Such lands have been deemed worthless by many hence being used as dumps by industrial and residential developers. This has hence resulted to the loss of many biological habits, pollution trapping, and storm buffering. Despite being highly polluted salt marshes protect the shorelines from erosion through trapping the sediments by buffering wave action (Raven, 2012).
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This topic makes one gain a better understanding about the major ecosystems around the globe. Besides, there is detailed information regarding the nine main terrestrial biomes, which are tundra, tropical rain forest, boreal forest, temperate grassland, temperate rain forest, savanna, temperate deciduous forest, chaparral and desert, together with the human foods which grow well within the various biomes, which turns out to be crucial information for any