tropical wetlands are the part of the earth system that includes the water in the everglades.
tropical wetlands are the part of the earth system that includes the water in the everglades.
which part of the earth system includes the water in the everglades?
tropical wetlands
the everglades is a natural region of tropical wetlands in the southern portion of the u.s. state of florida, comprising the southern half of a large drainage basin within the neotropic ecozone. the ecosystem it forms is not presently found anywhere else on earth. the system begins near orlando with the kissimmee river, which discharges into the vast but shallow lake okeechobee. water leaving the lake in the wet season forms a slow-moving river wide and over long, flowing southward across a limestone shelf to florida bay at the southern end of the state. the everglades experience a wide range of weather patterns, from frequent flooding in the wet season to drought in the dry season. the seminole tribe gave the large body of water the name okeechobee meaning "river of grass" to describe the sawgrass marshes, part of a complex system of interdependent ecosystems that include cypress swamps, the estuarine mangrove forests of the ten thousand islands, tropical hardwood hammocks, pine rockland, and the marine environment of florida bay. throughout the 20th century, the everglades suffered significant loss of habitat and environmental degradation.
everglades
as an integrative field, earth system science assumes the histories of a vast range of scientific disciplines, but as a discrete study it evolved in the 1980s, particularly at nasa, where a committee called the earth system science committee was formed in 1983. the earliest reports of nasa's essc, "earth system science: overview" (1986), and the book-length "earth system science: a closer view" (1988), constitute a major landmark in the formal development of earth system science. early works discussing earth system science, like these nasa reports, generally emphasized the increasing human impacts on the earth system as a primary driver for the need of greater integration among the life and geo-sciences, making the origins of earth system science parallel to the beginnings of global change studies and programs.
earth system science