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Compare marshes, swamps, and bogs.​

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Marshes: Have extremely good ability to support grasses, reeds, flowers, and insects due to their high nutrient soil. They usually are around lakes/rivers/and other bodies of water. They are frequently covered in water however not always covered in water.

Swamps: Have extremely good ability to support wood like plants, trees. They are also permanently covered/submerged in water all year around.

Bogs: Basically they are a gravesite of a dead plant life. When a lake fails to support itself it turns into a bog, its plant life dies off and will start rising to the top creating almost a film. However even though the plant life dies the insects, reptiles, and Amphibians thrive.

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Marshes, swamps, and bogs are all types of wetlands. This means that their soil can be saturated either permanently or seasonally. As wetlands, they are all characterized by high levels of biodiversity. Swamps tend to have a larger proportion of surface water than marshes and, in North America, are characterized by the presence of trees. Bogs have acidic groundwater as a result of their surface water resulting mainly from precipitation
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