What I've Learned

The first thing that i have learned is about Earth's waters. There are many different types of water from lakes to oceans, bogs to swamps, and fresh water to salt water. There are also ground waters, marshes, streams ponds, and wetlands. There are three common wetlands bogs, swamps, and marshes. These wetlands are quite diverse. Mosses like to grow in the acidic water of a bog.
Most swamps look like a flooded forest with Spanish moss hanging from them. Some parts of the everglades wildlife are the fish and snakes that gobble up tiny organisms. There are also wading birds like, pink flamingos, white egrets, and purple gallinules. A raccoon digs for alligator eggs unaware of the alligator underneath the water. Some threats to the everglades are, agriculture, development, and the introduction of new species. Some of the water that flowed into the everglades has been diverted by farming.
Many concerned people are trying yo preserve the everglades by giving it more and more fresh water. Some people want to use pipes to give it water. A lot of armed forces are also trying to supply water around the everglades to flow into the everglades. The importance of the wetlands is because some animals live in the everglades waters. The everglades also give off nutrients and a habitat for many living things. Some of the many organisms are, reeds, frogs, snails, dragonflies, and turtles.
Farmers and builders once thought that the wetlands were worthless. They also assumed that they couldn't be built on unless rained and filled. In the 1970s there was many confusion about the wetlands that people built on. Wetlands can actually be water filters. They also help control floods by absorbing most of the rain and extra runoff. Wetlands are just like sponges in that very way.
Some of the foods that we eat grow in the wetlands like rice and cranberry's. A wetland layer of water can be from a several centimeters to several meters deep. Dead leaves act as good fertilizers. The leaves add nitrogen to the wetlands. They also provide phosphates to the water. The last thing that leaves add are nutrients to the soil and the water.
Earth's atmosphere has four different layers. Those layers keep us on the ground and also squash a human trying to leave without a rocket. The first layer is the lowest and it is called the troposphere. The next layer is called the stratosphere. The middle layer of our atmosphere is the mesosphere. The outermost layer is the thermosphere. Then there is the ionosphere that starts at 80 kilometers.