Plants and Habitats
A key understory plant in pine forests, this shrub produces sweet blue-black berries.
What is the blueberry?
Located in Virginia, this 18th-century estate was the home of the third U.S. President.
What is Monticello?
This venomous snake, named for its copper-colored head, is common in Southeastern woodlands.
What is the copperhead?
The Southeast celebrates this pre-Lenten season with parades, beads, and king cake.
What is Mardi Gras?
This Epcot ride is housed in a geodesic sphere and explores human communication history.
What is Spaceship Earth?
This mountain range in the Southeast is one of the most biodiverse areas in North America.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This famous trail, ending (or beginning) in Georgia’s Springer Mountain, stretches over 2,000 miles to Maine.
What is the Appalachian Trail?
The Eastern hellbender, native to cool mountain streams, belongs to this amphibian group.
What are salamanders?
This dish of slow-cooked greens is often flavored with ham hocks or bacon fat.
What are collard greens?
SeaWorld Orlando is known for this roller coaster named after a sea creature, featuring a face-down ride experience.
What is Manta?
This fast-growing vine, originally from Asia, is known as “the vine that ate the South.”
What is kudzu?
This swamp, spanning Georgia and Florida, is one of the largest blackwater swamps in North America.
What is the Okefenokee Swamp?
A symbol of wilderness in the Southeast, this large predator returned to parts of its range after near-extinction.
What is the red wolf?
This rice-based dish from the Lowcountry often includes sausage, shrimp, or chicken.
What is pilau (or perloo)?
At Universal Studios Florida, this now-closed classic attraction took riders through scenes of disaster films.
What is Disaster!: A Major Motion Picture Ride…Starring YOU?
This tree has large, lobed leaves and produces acorns; it’s a staple in Southeastern hardwood forests.
What is the oak?
This Florida landmark is the southernmost point of the continental U.S.
What is Key West (Southernmost Point Buoy)?
This marine mammal is commonly found in the warm, shallow waters off Florida’s coast.
What is the West Indian manatee?
This savory pie, filled with cornmeal, buttermilk, and onions, is a lesser-known cousin of cornbread in Appalachia.
What is corn pone?
Dollywood’s “Wild Eagle” made history as the first of this type of coaster in the U.S.
What is a wing coaster?
These fire-adapted ecosystems feature longleaf pines and wiregrass.
What are pine savannas?
Known for its biodiversity, this national park lies along the border of North Carolina and Tennessee.
What is Great Smoky Mountains National Park?
This rare species of bat, found in Southern caves and old forests, is endangered due to white-nose syndrome.
What is the Indiana bat?
This Appalachian storytelling tradition often features tall tales and “Jack tales.”
What is oral tradition (or Appalachian folk storytelling)?
This ride, located in Islands of Adventure, was once the most expensive ever built at the time of its debut in 1999.
What is The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man?