Phenology
This word defines the study of change in plants and animals.
What is Phenology?
The only butterfly to migrate across an entire continent.
What is a Monarch Butterfly?
The directions birds fly in the winter and spring.
What is south in the winter and north in the spring?
The name the little birds recieved from Wakonda.
What is Bird of Snow?
The three seasons you will be at the Nature school.
What are fall, winter, and spring?
The two seasons in which migrations occur.
What is Fall and Spring?
The country that most Monarch Butterflies spend their winter hibernating.
What is Mexico?
Various answers (predators, bad weather, lack of food) are acceptable. Teacher determined.
The name of the sign language used to represent the characters in the Bird of Snow story.
What is Plains Hand Talk?
A change that has occured in our enviorment since you last came to the Nature School in the fall.
Various answers (dormant grass, leaves have fallen, snow or ice) are acceptable. Teacher determined.
This change occurs to broad leafed trees in the fall as they prepare to hibernate during winter.
What is dropping/ losing their leaves?
The species of plants Monarch must rely on for raising caterpillars.
What is milkweed?
A man made danger for migrating birds.
Various answers (light pollution, construction, chemical pollution) are acceptable. Teacher determined.
The hand symbol for "bird"
Must demonstrate the correct sign. Teacher determined.
The word that defines the daily changes in our atmosphere and that we predict every day in the council house.
What is weather?
These two strategies can be used by animals to survive the winter months in Missouri.
What is migration and hibernation?
The name of the tagging program at the Nature School that uses stickers to track Monarch migration.
What is Monarch Watch?
A bird species that migrate south for the winter.
Various answers (ducks, robins, warblers) are acceptable. Teacher determined.
The hand symbol for Wakonda.
The word that defines the expected weather patterns we expect in this part of Missouri for this particular season.
What is climate?
This is one of the factors that signal to migrating animals it is time to move south for the winter.
Various answers (weather change, food shortage, daylight hours changing) are acceptable. Teacher determined.
One of the reasons why Monarch Butterflies might migrate to Mexico?
Various reasons (cold weather, lack of food) are acceptable. Teacher determined.
A reason migrating birds decide to fly back north for spring and summer.
Various answers (plentiful food, nesting habitat, less competition) are acceptable. Teacher determined.
The material that had to be "pure" for Wakonda to come down to Earth.
What is snow?
The reason for our annual cycle of four seasons every year.
What is the tilt of the Earth's axis?