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Famous People
In the Marsh
Zones of the Marsh
Sapelo
Plants and Animals
100
Last individual owner of Sapelo Island from Tobacco money
Who is RJ Reynolds?
100
Another name for Nature's soup?
What is Detritus?
100
A Creek next to the Marsh Levee
What is tidal creek?
100
Name of the mansion on Sapelo Island
What is the Big House?
100
A Tree that lives 300 years in Maritime Forest
What is a Live Oak?
200
British General who helped create a colony in Georgia
Who is James Oglethorpe?
200
Grass that grows along the low Marsh
What is Spartina or Cord Grass?
200
Zone in which hardly any plant life exists
What is Salt Pan or Mud Flat
200
Another name for wetland soil (has prefix meaning under)
What is substrate?
200
A Plant that gets its nutrients from the air
What is an epiphyte?
300
Georgia Senator who owned Sapelo Island
Who is James Spalding?
300
Name for a salt plant (greek origin).
What is Halophyte?
300
Border between Maritime Forest and High Marsh
What is Transitional Community?
300
An Island that protects the mainland and is separated from other islands by tidal creeks
What is a Barrier Island?
300
A Fern that lives on the Live Oak
What is a Resurrection Fern?
400
Female Indian Interpreter for James Oglethorpe
Who is Mary Musgrove?
400
Most southern of Georgia's barrier Islands
What is Cumberland Island?
400
Zone between Low Marsh and Tidal Creek
What is Levee?
400
It's been around for 350 million years and has blue blood that scientist use for testing infections.
What is a Horseshoe crab?
400
It literally means Water plant (a succulent plant).
What is a Hydrophyte?
500
Part Owner of the Hudson motor corporation and owned Sapelo and part of Sea Island
Who is Howard Coffin?
500
Indians used ashes and these needle-like plants to tattoo themselves.
What is Black Needle Rush?
500
This little guy loves the salt pan and has one claw bigger than the girls.
What is a Fiddler Crab?
500
An elevated upland island with trees that is surrounded by Marsh
What is a Hammock?
500
Microscopic animals that live in the estuaries.
What is zooplankton?