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Consider your students’ answers.

1. They offer protection from predators and heat, summer breeding areas, a stopping place for migrants, shade, food.

2. Marsh, slough, bog, swamp.

3. Water, special soil , water- loving plants (hydrophytes)

4. A safe place for wildlife to live and raise their young, a summer breeding area, a stopping placer for migratory birds, protection and cover in summer and winter, and food, shelter, cool cover for fish.

5. high desert- high and dry, with sagebrush and bitter brush.

upland – grassy place with prairie plants, bunch grass, yellow balsam

valley – a moister place with aspens, hawthorns flood control, water purification, recreation

7. kayaking, fishing, duck hunting, bird watching

Vocabulary: Hydrophytes - (give an example, too) plants adapted to wet soil cattail etc

Hydric - Soils low or absent in oxygen due to their saturation in water. Rich and black

Marsh -

Slough -

Swamp -

Bog -

Riparian zone – plants along a river

Underground aquifer - very old, clean water

Camas – native plant with roots important to the Nez Perce

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