Georgia Habitats | ||
#1 | Any living thing | What is an organism? |
#2 | All the living and nonliving things that surround an organism | What is an environment? |
#3 | The place where a plant or animal lives | What is a habitat? |
#4 | All the living and nonliving things that interact in one place | What is an ecosystem? |
#5 | The three main regions of Georgia's habitats | What are mountains, piedmont, and coastal plains? |
Piedmont and Mountains | ||
#1 | An area of gently rolling land between the mountains and the coast | What is the piedmont? |
#2 | The region of Georgia that has many rivers and streams, forests, and hills | What is the piedmont? |
#3 | An rocky, cool, area of very high land | What is a mountain? |
#4 | How high something is above sea level | What is elevation? |
#5 | The highest mountain in Georgia | What is Brasstown Bald |
Swamps and Marshes | ||
#1 | An area of low land covered by water for most of the year | What is a wetland? |
#2 | A wetland in which mostly trees and woody plants grow | What is a swamp? |
#3 | A wetland in which mostly grasses and soft stem plants grow | What is a marsh? |
#4 | The largest freshwater swamp in North America | What is the Okefenokee Swamp? |
#5 | The place where freshwater and saltwater mix | What is an estuary? |
Coastal and Ocean Habitats 1 | ||
#1 | A sandy strip of land offshore that protects the mainland | What is a barrier island? |
#2 | Any place where the ocean meets land | What is a coast? |
#3 | A long ridge of sand in shallow water, usually close to a beach | What is a sandbar? |
#4 | A mound of sand formed by wind or moving water | What is a dune? |
#5 | The protected plant that keeps sand dunes in place | What are sea oats? |
Coastal and Ocean Habitats 2 | ||
#1 | A gently sloping area of land on the ocean bottom near the shore | What is the continental shelf? |
#2 | One habitat on the continental shelf with very few plants or animals living there | What is the sandy bottom? |
#3 | One habitat on the continental shelf with a great number of plants and animals growing there | What is the live bottom? |
#4 | A ridge of rock on the ocean bottom | What is a reef? |
#5 | A reef off of Georgia's coast full of organisms including loggerhead turtles, fish, crabs, lobsters, sea stars, coral, shrimp, and even right whales giving birth to their calves | What is Gray's Reef? |
Final Question | |
A creature that spends its entire life under ground in the dark | What is a troglobite? |