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- What lives in a bog?
- What is a quagmire swamp?
- Where are mires located?
- What animals live in a mire?
- What animals live in a fen?
- What lives in a marsh?
- What does Giggity mean?
- What Quagmire says?
- Who voices Quagmire?
- What's the difference between a mire and a quagmire?
- What is muck and mire?
- What does the word mires mean?
- Which animals live in the river?
- Where do alligators live?
- What kind of animals live in the pond?
What lives in a bog?
Bog plants and insects support a wide variety of other organisms. Amphibians, such as frogs, salamanders, and newts, thrive in insect-rich bogs. Threatened species of cranes nest in bogs and peatlands in North America and Siberia.
What is a quagmire swamp?
A mire, peatland, or quagmire is a wetland area dominated by living peat-forming plants. Mires arise because of incomplete decomposition of organic matter, usually litter from vegetation, due to water-logging and subsequent anoxia.
Where are mires located?
All mires are in areas where the groundwater table is permanently at or near the surface of the ground. Mires are commonly separated into minerotrophic mires (fens) in which water and nutrients are supplied from ground water, surface sources, and atmospheric precipitation.
What animals live in a mire?
Sparrows, rails, gulls and herons are common birds living in saltwater marshes. Aquatic birds like ducks and cormorants rely on the marsh's tall grass for nesting, while smaller birds, like terns, feast on a variety of insects and crustaceans within the biome.
What animals live in a fen?
Fens usually have tamarack trees, poison sumac, and a profusion of wildflowers. This diversity of wildflowers makes fens a magnet for many insects, including butterflies. Fens also provide valuable habitat for deer, turkey and other birds, as well as snakes, turtles and fish.
What lives in a marsh?
Bulrushes and cattails are often found at the edges of a marsh. There are very few trees in freshwater marshes. Animals like mink, raccoons, opossums, muskrats, beavers, frogs, turtles and lots of species of birds and insects are common in marsh lands. Freshwater marshes can vary in size from very small to very large!
What does Giggity mean?
slang. an expression of delight, amusement, or relish.
What Quagmire says?
He is a neighbor and friend of the Griffin family and is best known for his hypersexuality and his catchphrase, "Giggity".
Who voices Quagmire?
Seth MacFarlane voices four of the show's main characters: Peter Griffin, Brian Griffin, Stewie Griffin, and Glenn Quagmire.
What's the difference between a mire and a quagmire?
As nouns the difference between mire and quagmire
is that mire is deep mud; moist, spongy earth or mire can be (obsolete) an ant while quagmire is a swampy, soggy area of ground.
What is muck and mire?
As nouns the difference between muck and mire
is that muck is slimy mud while mire is deep mud; moist, spongy earth or mire can be (obsolete) an ant.
What does the word mires mean?
1 : wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) the mire is relieved only by small stretches of open dry forest — Saturday Review. 2 : heavy often deep mud or slush The troops trudged onward through the mire. 3 : a troublesome or intractable situation found themselves in a mire of debt.
Which animals live in the river?
Freshwater rivers are often home a wide variety of species from insects, to amphibians, reptiles, fish, birds and even mammals. Turtles, ducks, otters, crocodiles, catfish, dragonfly and crabs can be found in rivers all around the world, and the Amazon river is even home to the rare and pink, freshwater dolphin.
Where do alligators live?
American alligators live in the wild in the southeastern United States. You're most likely to spot them in Florida and Louisiana, where they live in rivers, lakes, ponds, swamps, bayous, and marshes. These reptiles are kind of clumsy on land, but they're built for life in the water.
What kind of animals live in the pond?
In a large pond you may find mammals such as water voles and water shrews – and birds like ducks, herons and kingfishers. Even the smallest pond will have a population of amphibians (frogs, toads and newts), small fish e.g. sticklebacks, and a huge variety of invertebrates (minibeasts).
