What Every Student Should Know about the Low Country

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What Every Student Should Know about the Low
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Low Country
Forests and Grasslands
Wetlands
Coast
Islands
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Where is the Low Country?
The region of our state closest to the ocean.
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What makes up the Low Country?
The coast and the coastal plain.
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What is climate?
The usual type of weather in an area over a long
period of time.
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True or False Columbia is part of the Low Country.
False

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Name an area that is part of the Low Country.
Charleston, Myrtle Beach, or Georgetown
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What is an island?
Small pieces of land with water on all sides.
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What does a refuge do?
Provide protection for animals and plants from
people.
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What animal needs the dunes on the beach and why?
The loggerhead turtle lays her eggs in them.
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Why are barrier islands important?

They protect our coast from the ocean.
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What would happen if there werent any barrier
islands?
More erosion, our beaches would be worn away by
the surf.
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What is the longest beach in South Carolina and
how long is it?
The Grand Strand is 55 miles long.
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What ocean borders SC beaches?
The Atlantic Ocean
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Name three animals native to our beaches?
Horseshoe crab, sandpipers, bottle nosed
dolphins, oysters, shrimp, or pelicans.
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What are the storms called that hit our beaches?
Hurricanes
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What effects might the tide have?
Leave animals on the shore or wash away the sand.
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What are wetlands?
These areas are covered by water all or part of
the time.
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What two other names for a marsh?
Salt marshes and tidal marshes
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How are marshes different than swamps?
A swamp is like a marsh, but the swamp has trees
in it.
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Explain how salt marshes are alike and different.
Both are grasslands of the low country but, one
has salt water while the other has fresh.
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What is a habitat?
A home for wildlife.
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Name two trees native to SC?
The palmetto, live oak, or evergreens.
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Name two animals of the forest or grasslands?
Foxes, White-tailed deer, alligators, blue
herons, or ducks
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What are two unusual plants that live in SC?
The Venus flytrap and the pitcher plant.
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What are Carolina Bays?
They are large, oval areas in the coastal plain
that can be swampy or dry.
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Where are the only 3 places to find Carolina
Bays?
South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia

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Name all the regions of South Carolina.

• Low Country
• Coastal Plain
• Midlands
• Piedmont
• Blue Ridge