Plants
Animals
The Marsh
The Beach
Vocabulary
100
These stately trees are all over our barrier islands, and are the State Tree of Georgia.
What are Live Oaks?
100
This keystone species makes holes that fill with water and help other animals.
What is an alligator?
100
Its mucky and yucky but full of nutrients!
What is detritus?
100
These are beautiful, they protect the beach, and they are easily destroyed.
What are dunes?
100
This decaying grass from the marsh ends up beachside, marking the edge of the tidal zone.
What is wrack?
200
This marsh grass make a great home for periwinkle snails.
What is spartina grass?
200
The cute animals can be found lots of places, but they love to go to the marsh where they can hunt for crabs and wash their hands.
What is a raccoon?
200
This is the time of day in the marsh when the most detritus is exposed and marsh animals can walk out into the marsh to eat.
What is low tide?
200
These lovely creatures leave behind a shell that is the state shell of Georgia.
What are knobbed whelks?
200
This current travels north to south along the eastern coast.
What is the longshore current?
300
Once spartina grass is swept away by the sea and then deposited on the beach, its name changes to this.
What is wrack?
300
It is dangerous to a baby one of these! They are everybody's lunch as they make their way from the beach to the water.
What is a sea turtle?
300
These high places in the marsh sound like a good place to relax and look like islands in the marsh.
What are hammocks?
300
Due to the longshore current that travels north to south along our coast, the northern end of most islands is getting smaller because of this force.
What is erosion?
300
Offshore from Georgia, the ocean depth changes drastically at this point.
What is the continental slope?
400
This lovely plant is undergrowth in maritime forests and gets its name from what it looks like.
What is saw-tooth palmetto?
400
It's hard to tell if this creature is a plant or an animal, but be careful as you handle it or you may get sea water splashed in your face!
What is a sea squirt?
400
This state has a relatively short shoreline, yet has one third of all the marshes in the US.
What is Georgia?
400
The way barrier islands are formed creates sand dunes, and also these, which form a few hundred feet offshore.
What are sand bars?
400
Because this is so shallow along Georgia's coast, we have very high tides.
What is the continental shelf?
500
This creature is the state marine animal of Georgia whose breeding ground is a few miles off the coast of Georgia is an endangered species.
What is the Right Whale?
500
Marshes change their shape and size six times a day due to the pull of these.
What are the tides?
500
Sand is made up of tiny particles of rock and minerals. This is the most commonly mineral found in beach sand.
What is quartz?
500
This area of low-lying land is flooded at high tide and stays damp during low tide.
What is a marsh?
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