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How many types of wetlands there are.

What is four?

A type of wetland that holds water all year and only goes dry after many years of drought.

What is a permanent wetland?

A type of wetland that usually contains water snowmelt to mid-July and may be used for pasture or hay land.

What is a seasonal wetland?

A type of wetland that holds water all year except in very dry years.

What is a semi-permanent wetland?

Type of wetland made of a shallow depression that holds water from snowmelt until early June (the least amount of time).

What is a temporary wetland?

The outermost vegetation zone of a wetland. It contains fine-textured grasses, sedges and rushes.

What is a wet meadow?

The vegetation zone found in the central area of a semi-permanent wetland. It contains fully submerged aquatic vegetation.

What is a deep marsh?

The vegetation zone found in the central area of a seasonal wetland and between the two other zones of a semipermanent wetland.

What is the shallow marsh?

The vegetation zone, found only in a permanent wetland which doesn’t contain vegetation.

What is the central deep water?

The vegetation zone found in a semipermanent and a permanent wetland but not in a seasonal wetland.

What is a deep marsh?

Non-native plants or animals that have been introduce to a wetland and are harmful to it like curly leaf pondweed, purple loosestrife, and the zebra mussel.

What are aquatic nuisance species?

The process where soil erosion by runoff carries soil particles to wetlands, depositing it, and causing soil buildup which may lead to shallow wetlands and habitat destruction.

What is sedimentation?

The process of adding nutrients to wetlands through runoff from fertilizers, manure, and lawns which causes algae blooms which can be harmful to a wetland.

What is nutrification?

The number of acres of North Dakota wetlands that have been drained in the last century. (HINT – ND originally had 5 million aces of wetlands.)

What is 2.5 million acres?

The biggest threat to North Dakota wetlands.

What is drainage?

The number of functions of wetlands.

What is five?

The function of wetlands pertaining to hunting, bird watching, and fishing.

What is public use?

A function of wetlands in which they remove pollutants from water.

What is improving water quality?

The function of wetlands in which water seeps into the ground to refill aquifers.

What is recharging groundwater?

The function of wetlands in which they store water from snow melt and after heavy rains.

What is natural flood control?

These formed most of the wetlands in
North Dakota (the last one entered ND from Canada 40,000 years ago).

What are glaciers?

The three common characteristics of wetlands are water, plants that can live in water, and hydric soil which was formed without the presence of this gas.

What is oxygen?

North Dakota is part of the Prairie
Pothole Region which covers 30,000 square miles of this many US states and Canadian provinces.

What is eight?

North Dakota has three major natural regions which include the Red River
Valley, the Drift Prairie, and the
Missouri Plateau. Of these, this one contains the largest number of wetlands and the most temporary and seasonal wetlands.

What is the Drift Prairie?

The fourth horizon of soil also called subsoil.

What is the B horizon?

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A feature in soil where iron that was reduced by being in an anaerobic environment becomes oxidized when soil dries out and becomes aerobic.

What is Redoximorphic?