Wetlands act as kidneys for rivers, cleaning out rubbish and pollutants from water. Larger wetlands can take longer to walk through but remove more pollutants. Wetlands go by many names like swamp, bog, fen, marsh, and muskeg. A man-made wetland is constructed by humans to filter stormwater, while a natural wetland occurs without human involvement. Constructed wetlands are meant to filter out pollution and contaminants from water.

1. Wetlands
By Jack

2. What a wetland is...
• A Wetland is like the kidneys of the river, they clean
out rubbish and petulance in the river.
• Some wetlands can take up to 1 or 2 days to walk but the
bigger the wetland
• the more
• pollutants
• it takes
• out of the water.

3. Names of Wetlands
• Swamp, Bog, Fen, Marsh, Quag, Quagmir
e, Slough, Swampland, Mire, Morass, and
Muskeg.

4. • A man made
wetland is
one that has
been
constructed
by humans to
use for
example to
filter
stormwater.
What is a man made wetland?

5. What is a natural wetland?
• A natural wetland is a wetland that has
occurred naturally with Mother Nature!

6. The purpose of a
constructed Wetland...
It’s meant to filter out the
pollution and
contaminants in the water.