Wetland wildlife cards • To make the cards, cut the line across the width of your paper then fold each half in half again so you end up with a picture on one side and the information on the other. Stick the two sides together with glue.
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Fold Fold growing due togrowing due improved water quality are of numbers UK the parts from large After know? you Did disappearing Habitat: Classification: Classification: underwater when nose and ears their close to fur can warm; keep them dense Webbed feet; adaptations: Wetland and crustaceans Diet: Otter Britain’s largest reptile largest Britain’s are snakes Grass know? you Did grassland, woodland Habitat: Classification: very strong technique swimming developed Have adaptations: Wetland and birds Diet: snake Grass Fish, waterbirds, amphibians waterbirds,Fish, amphibians Amphibians, fish, small mammals mammals small fish, Amphibians, Ponds, lakes, Lakes, rivers, streams, coasts streams, rivers, Lakes, Vertebrate - Reptile - Vertebrate Vertebrate - Mammal - Vertebrate
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Fold Fold They only have one eye They only have one know? you Did streams and rivers Habitat: Crustacean Classification: of allowsbody direction fast change Bullet-shaped adaptations: Wetland Diet: Cyclops wing cases so it can breathe under water it so under breathe cases wing can its underneath trap air can boatman The greater know? you Did water Habitat: Classification: swimming aid to shapes intohave developed paddle legs Hind adaptations: Wetland fish small Diet: boatman Greater water Algae, decaying animals decaying Algae, Invertebrates, tadpoles and Ponds, ditches and canals Ponds, lakes and slow-flowing lakes and Ponds, Invertebrate - - Invertebrate Invertebrate - Insect
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Fold Fold Dragonfly around for 300 million years for 300 around Dragonflies have been know? you Did Habitat: Classification: of allowsbody direction fast change Bullet-shaped adaptations: Wetland Diet: a ram’s horn of resembles which shell their shape the from comes name Their know? you Did Habitat: Classification: shells their store inside air Can trap and adaptations: Wetland Diet: snail Ramshorn Small insects Small Plants Ponds Ponds, lakes, canals and ditches Invertebrate - Insect Invertebrate -Mollusc Cut Cut
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Fold Fold heavily polluted water survive in They can know? you Did Habitat: Classification: skin their through breathe Can adaptations: Wetland Diet: worm Sludge Classification: through their bodies breathe Can adaptations: Wetland worms tadpoles, killing them) killing of (without blood the other animals feed on leeches Many know? you Did Habitat: Diet: Leech Bacteria Fish, freshwater snails, snails, freshwater Fish, Ponds and streams Ponds, lakes, rivers lakes, Ponds, Invertebrate -Worm Invertebrate -Worm
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Fold Fold into two worms separate If cut they two, know? in you Did grow Habitat: Classification: skin their through Breathe adaptations: Wetland Diet: Flatworm life under water under life its world the in that spends only spider water is the The spider know? you Did slow-flowing streams Habitat: Classification: underwater breathe it to its enabling on hairs body the Traps adaptations: in air Wetland fish smaller Diet: Water spider Daphnia, dead animals dead Daphnia, Insects, crustaceans, tadpoles and Ponds, lakes, very Ponds Invertebrate -Arachnid Invertebrate -Worm
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Fold Fold reach their prey their reach down stems the ofby running plants to known to underwater have been hunt Great raft know? you Did spiders Habitat: Classification: water the of to them surface the walk on enable legs Hairy adaptations: Wetland water spiders Diet: Great raft spider Invertebrates, small fish, fish, small Invertebrates, Ponds, ditches, bogs Ponds, Invertebrate -Arachnid
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