PPT-Wetland Soils Natures Sponges

What is a WETLAND Peat Bogs Poor Mans Charcoal HISTOSOL Organic Wet What are hydric soils Hydros water in Latin Surface layers are usually BLACK The subsoil is GRAY and has freckles of bright . Prepares Sites for Success . Challenge: Acquiring . Land is Not Enough. SF Bay Region Wetland Restoration Projects. Why Dredging . was . Needed – . The Polar Star at Mare Island Drydock. .. Challenge: Getting Restoration Sites Ready. Phylum: . Porifera. Sponge Characteristics. Simplest animal. Live in all oceans but prefer shallow tropical waters.. Sessile. Asymmetrical body plan. Filter feeders – can filter several thousand liters a day.. BSC 2011L. Kingdom Animalia. All animals are multicelluar and heterotrophic . Some means of locomotion. Always diploid. Animal Taxonomy. Domain . Eukarya. Kingdom . Animalia. Invertebrates. Parazoa. – no true tissue layers. Sponges. Kingdom. Animalia. Phylum. Porifera. Sponges. Sessile. Don’t move. No specialized tissues or organs. Asymmetrical. Sponges . Body Structure. Vase-wall around a hollow tube. Closed at the bottom and open at the top. What is soil? . Soil: A natural body of mineral (non-living) and organic (living) material that forms on the surface of the earth, and is the medium for plant growth.. Forms over time from the decay of plants and organisms on the surface, and the break-down (weathering) of rocks, minerals, and sediments at, and beneath, the surface.. Chapter 6, Zoology. Phylum . Porifera. Pronounced (. po. -. rif. '-. er. -a). The name means “bearing pores”. Sponges are made up of . a system. of tiny . pores and canals. that make up a intricate . Prepares Sites for Success . Challenge: Acquiring . Land is Not Enough. SF Bay Region Wetland Restoration Projects. Why Dredging . was . Needed – . The Polar Star at Mare Island Drydock. .. Challenge: Getting Restoration Sites Ready. Characteristics. . of a Wetland. Wetlands vary widely due to local and regional differences in:. Topography . Hydrology. Vegetation. and other factors, including human disturbance. . Wetlands can be divided into two main classes: . The Food Security Act was enacted on. December 23, 1985. Title XII of this. Act introduced 3 conservation. provisions to address environmental . concerns associated with soil erosion. and wetland conversion.. Sponge Characteristics. Simplest animal. Live in all oceans but prefer shallow tropical waters.. Sessile. Asymmetrical body plan. Filter feeders – can filter several thousand liters a day.. Sponge Anatomy. Venus’s Flower Basket w/ . Wedding Shrimp. Porifera. I. Considered simple animals as they consist of many cell types with special . functions. & they lack . tissues . and . organs. . . II. Their skeleton can be composed from . Vase Sponge. (. Ircinia. . campana. ). Tube Sponge. (. Callyspongia. . vaginalis. ). Learning Goals. : . I can label the anatomy of a sea sponge.. I can differentiate between the types of sea sponges.. 2 wetlands that depend on excessive emphasis of the provisioning services at the expense of the regulating services, in the MA view, and excessive water use from the CA perspective. This has led to we Soils support the growth of higher plants by providing a medium for plant roots and supplying nutrient elements that are essential to the entire plant.. Soil properties are the principal factor controlling the fate of water in the hydrologic system. Water loss, utilization, contamination and purification are all affected by the soil..