MidLitSci
Florida's Everglades: The River of Grass

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A healthy ecosystem provides clean water, air, and sunlight that can support many different kinds of life.

Southern Florida's subtropical climate produces the rain that floods the Everglades each year.

The Everglades biome is made up of many smaller ecosystems.

The Everglades have great biodiversity, with more than 40 types of mammals, 50 different reptiles, and 350 different birds.

Many plant and animal species that live in the Everglades are at risk of dying out because of pollution, droughts, the loss of habitat, and other causes.

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Vocabulary words: biodiversity, biome, ecosystem, environment, habitat, subtropical