Week Five Flashcards
Wetlands
1
Q
- Water remains within root zone
- High oxygen saturation
- Open expanses of standing/flowing water
- Slightly alkaline
A
Marsh
2
Q
- Robust emergents
- Anchored floating plants
- Submergents
- Cattails, rushes, bulrushes, sedges, grasses and herbs
- Low shrubs: sweet gale, water willow
- Open areas: stonewort, pondweed, water-milfoils waterweeds, waterlilies, duckweed
A
Marsh
3
Q
- Wooded wetland, over 25% tree/tall shrub cover
- Seasonal standing-gently flowing water
- Abundance of pools indicates subsurface waterflow
- Little oxygen deficiency
- Little deficiency of mineral nutrients
A
Swamp
4
Q
- Coniferous: white cedar, eastern hemlock, tamarack, black spruce
- Deciduous: silver maple, white elm, black/green ash, yellow birch
- Tall shrub: willow species, red-osier dogwood, buttonbush, speckled alder
- Herbs and mosses
A
Swamp
5
Q
- Ombrotrophic: dependant on atmospheric moisture for it’s nutrients
- Low plant diversity (less than 14 vascular species)
- Few/no fen indicator plants
- Few/no tamaracks/eastern white cedar
- Low pH (less than 4.7)
- less than 25% tree cover
A
Bog
6
Q
- Black spruce
- Tamarack
- Ericaceous shrubs
- Sedge
A
Bog
7
Q
- Surface layers of poorly to moderately decomposed peat
- Greater diversity of plants vs. Bogs
- Dominated by sedges and grasses
- Tall shrub layer can exceed 25% cover
A
Fen
8
Q
- Dominated by sedges and grasses
- Low shrubs: sweet gale
- Ericaceous species
- Tall shrub
A
Fen
9
Q
Lands that are seasonally or permanently flooded by shallow water/lands where the water table is close to the surface
A
Wetland
10
Q
Substrate with moisture regime 6 or greater
A
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