Wetland Types
Soft, spongy peatland. Receives water from precipitation. Vegetation is moss, small shrubs and black spruce. Very common in NL.
What is a Bog?
Like this item, wetlands can absorb water during extreme weather events and release when needed.
What is a Sponge?
This organization helps municipalities in NL to protect wetland habitats within their towns.
What is SAM?
Newfoundland and Labrador's provincial flower, typically grows in wetlands.
What is a pitcher plant?
What is a beaver?
Low-lying peatlands whole or partly covered with water and grassy plants. Fed by ground or surface water. Usually a high plant life diversity because of their fresh water source.
What is a Fen?
Like a whisk, wetlands can mix these important items into the water, which are important for fish and wildlife.
What are nutrients (like oxygen)?
Wetland habitats provide everything an organism needs to survive, which are?
What is food, water and shelter?
Usnea, a greenish hairy looking lichen, is commonly called this funny name - a great firestarter.
What is Old Man's Beard?
These large, antlered mammals aren't native to Newfoundland and Labrador, but now have a population of over 120,000.
What are moose?
Peatland located between forests and other wetlands. Usually dominated by trees, shrubs, snags and deadwood. Can slow water in floods.
What is a Swamp?
Wildlife can use wetlands as a resting place during this seasonal move from place to place.
What is migration?
Wetlands contribute to this, meaning lots of different life?
What is biodiversity?
This aquatic plant's leaves and flowers float on the surface of a body of water.
What is a water lily?
This fish is known for hatching in freshwater, but migrating to saltwater to grow and mature (anadromous). Their scientific name, Salmo salar means leaper.
What is Atlantic Salmon?
Periodic or persistent standing water or slow moving surface water, generally nutrient-rich and often found in the transition between ponds and shorelines. Vegetation covers more than 25% of the open water. The most ecologically diverse wetland as they are important habitat.
What is a Marsh?
Wetlands are compared to this human organ because of how it filters toxins out of the water.
What is a Kidney?
This special environmental day falls on February 2nd annually - not to be confused with Groundhog Day.
What is World Wetlands Day?
Newfoundland and Labrador's Provincial Species of Tree, typically found in wetlands.
What is Black Spruce?
This bird's oversized round head, tiny body, and curiosity about everything, including humans, makes them very cute. Their "black cap" and distinctive call is where it gets its name.
What is a Black Capped Chickadee?
Wetlands with free surface water up to 2m deep that are present for all or most of the year. Less than 25 % of the surface water area covered by standing vegetation, usually submerged or floating plants usually dominate the vegetation.
What is a Pond (shallow body of water)?
The world's wetlands are better at this than forests and oceans.
What is Carbon Sequestration?
It takes this many years to grow 1.5 meters of peat.
What is 1000 years?
Commonly called peat moss, this wetland plant can hold lots of water.
What is Sphagnum Moss?
This species of insect is born in the water and spends several years as a nymph, then molts its exoskeleton, spreads its wings and flies away.
What is a dragonfly?