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Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes

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1 Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes

2 Climate / Location Location: Southwest Texas
Average Precipitation: Temperature: Summer: degrees Winter: degrees Wind speeds: 7.6

3 Soil Vertisols Mollisols
Vertisols: are clay rich soils that can shrink and swell. During dry period the soil shrinks and cracks are formed. The soil only expands in wet moisture Mollisols: they are soils of the grassland horizons. They are featured by thick , black horizons. They are the most important soil in the world for agricultural purposes. Vertisols Mollisols

4 Landforms Barrier island, estuaries, bays, tall grass prairies, salt grass marshes, rivers are some of the landforms that can be found in a gulf coast marshes and prairies. Rivers Estuaries Bays Barrier island Salt grass marshes Prairies

5 Animals The gulf coast prairies and marshes contained a vast diversity of animals. Some of the animals are rosette spoonbills, whooping cranes, muskrats, bull frogs, pelicans, alligators and much more. whooping cranes pelicans alligators bull frogs rosette spoonbills muskrats

6 Plants The gulf coast marshes and prairies contains a huge diversity of plants. Some of the plants are Meadow pink, Coral bean, Sugarberry, Water oak, Spider lily. Water oak Coral bean sugarberry Pink meadow Spider lily


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