Okefenokee Swamp Quiz: Georgia's Blackwater Wetland

This Okefenokee swamp quiz paddles into North America's largest blackwater swamp. Play 10 interactive questions on its place in southeast Georgia, the land of trembling earth, floating peat islands, tannin-dark water, the Suwannee and St. Marys rivers, the 1937 wildlife refuge, alligators, sandhill cranes, cypress trees and the Pogo comic strip.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

State
Which state holds most of the Okefenokee?
Type
What kind of swamp is the Okefenokee?
Name
What is the name often said to mean?
Islands
What are the floating islands made of?
Color
What makes the water dark?
Rivers
Which two rivers flow out of the swamp?
Refuge
When did the Okefenokee become a national wildlife refuge?
Reptile
Which reptile is common in the swamp?
Bird
Which tall bird lives there year-round?
Comic
Which comic strip was set in the Okefenokee?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Which state holds most of the Okefenokee?
Answer: Georgia
It reaches the Florida line.
Q2: What kind of swamp is the Okefenokee?
Answer: The largest blackwater swamp in North America
Its water looks like tea.
Q3: What is the name often said to mean?
Answer: Land of trembling earth
Peat islands quake underfoot.
Q4: What are the floating islands made of?
Answer: Peat
Some become solid enough for trees.
Q5: What makes the water dark?
Answer: Tannins from plants
The water is clean but stained.
Q6: Which two rivers flow out of the swamp?
Answer: Suwannee and St. Marys
One flows to the Gulf, one to the Atlantic.
Q7: When did the Okefenokee become a national wildlife refuge?
Answer: 1937
It protects most of the swamp.
Q8: Which reptile is common in the swamp?
Answer: American alligator
Thousands live there.
Q9: Which tall bird lives there year-round?
Answer: Sandhill crane
Its call carries across prairies.
Q10: Which comic strip was set in the Okefenokee?
Answer: Pogo
Walt Kelly created it.

Paddling North America's Largest Blackwater Swamp

The Okefenokee Swamp spreads across southeast Georgia to the Florida line and is the largest blackwater swamp in North America. Its name is often said to mean land of trembling earth, because thick peat islands quake when people step on them. Tannins from plants stain the clean water a deep tea color.

The swamp feeds two rivers that go in opposite directions: the Suwannee flows to the Gulf of Mexico and the St. Marys to the Atlantic. Most of the swamp has been protected as a national wildlife refuge since 1937, with canoe trails winding through cypress forests and open wet prairies.

Thousands of American alligators live here alongside sandhill cranes, black bears, turtles and wading birds. Floating peat mats sometimes grow solid enough for trees to take root. Cartoonist Walt Kelly set his comic strip Pogo, about a gentle possum and his friends, in the Okefenokee.

What This Quiz Teaches

Nature fans will enjoy these questions.

Where the swamp is
What its name means
Why its water is dark
Which rivers it feeds
Which animals live there

Did You Know?

Visitors can camp on wooden platforms in the swamp.
Carnivorous pitcher plants grow there.
Fires help renew the swamp's prairies.
Boardwalks lead to observation towers.
The swamp covers hundreds of thousands of acres.