It's a Process
The seasonal movement of animals from one habitat to another in search of food, better conditions or reproductive needs
What is Migration?
In preparing for winter, many animals increase their food consumption to prevent hunger during winter and to add extra layers of fat used for this during winter
What is insulation?
The male white-tailed deer sheds these this time of year since rutting season is over
What are antlers?
A state of greatly reduced metabolic activity and lowered body temperature
What is Hibernation?
These invertebrates migrate from Canada to Mexico and make the return journey over several generations
What are Monarch Butterflies?
Any inheritable trait or special skill that helps an animal survive
What is Adaptation?
Honeybees make and store 30-60 lbs. of this sugary substance that they will consume all winter long
This thick-furred mammal is awake and active during the winter and will even swim under the ice of ponds and rivers
What is the American Beaver?
A temporary form of hibernation in which metabolism and body temperature lower, but the animal is easily awoken
This Ohio migrant is infamous for being spotted at the Cleveland Hopkins Airport
What is the Snowy Owl?
Plants use this process to create sugars, or food, from carbon dioxide, water and sunlight
What is Photosynthesis?
Beavers add sticks and mud to this structure in the fall to help insulate it in preparation for winter and mating
What is a lodge?
This uncommonly seen animal adapts to colder temperatures by growing longer, thicker coats and wrapping itself in its own tail at night
What is the Red Fox?
A behavioral and physiological state of animals and plants that involves inactivity and reduced metabolic rate
What is Dormancy?
This sportfish that can be caught locally has a unique life cycle. They are born in freshwater, migrate to the ocean to grow into adults and then return to freshwater to spawn.
What are Steelhead Trout?
The process of maintaining a core body temperature
Thermoregulation
This large herbivore is unable to properly digest anything but woody material in winter month's due to a seasonal change in their stomach enzymes (aka: don't feed them corn!)
What is the white-tailed deer?
This animal, North America's only marsupial, actually gets frostbite most winters and many are missing the tips of their bare tails or toes from frostbite.
What is the Virginia Opossum?
Ectothermic hibernation, which includes lowered body temperature and respiration rate but also movement and water consumption on warmer days, is called:
What is Brumation?
A word describing fish that spend part of their lives migrating to, from and within the ocean
What is anadromous?
Animals use sunlight, chemical cues and this feature of our planet to know when and where to migrate
Jays, woodpeckers, squirrels and chipmunks are a few examples of animals that do this with food items to prepare for winter
What is cache?
Some animals, like this rare, endangered Ohio mammal, change from brown/gray to white during the winter to better blend into their surroundings and avoid predators
Physiological dormancy in any stage of an insect's development because of environmental conditions
What is Diapause?
This shorebird (not in Ohio) holds the record for the longest migration path at 44,000 miles per year-- from pole to pole
What is the Artic Tern?