Birds
This is when birds travel long distances each year to find food and warmer weather.
What is migration?
Monarch butterflies travel thousands of miles to spend winter in this country.
What is Mexico?
Missouri’s average temperature has mostly done this since the 1960s.
What is increased?
Scientists use these mahmatical diagrams to spot patterns and trends over time.
What is a graph?
The term which is the namesake of your Nature School class project and that means to live in a way where you do not take more than you need.
What is sustainability?
Many Missouri birds fly south during winter because there is more of this available there.
What is food?
This plant is the only food monarch caterpillars can eat.
What is milkeweed?
This is the name of the graph which shows Missouri is getting more rain over time.
What is a precipitation graph?
Another name for the line or "story" of a graph.
What is a trend?
One way we are helping endangered Monarchs at the Nature School.
What is tagging or planting milkweed?
This formation helps birds save energy while flying long distances.
What is a V shaped formation?
Scientists track monarchs by placing small stickers on them. This process is called.
More heavy rainstorms can cause this problem when the ground can’t soak up water fast enough.
What is flooding?
This kind of map shows where bird populations are seen during different times of year.
What is a migration map?
We use this to make decisions about our place rather than feelings and emotions.
What is data or evidence?
These two strategies can be used by animals to survive the winter months in Missouri.
What is migration and hibernation?
Monarchs migrate mainly to survive this seasonal challenge.
What is cold weather?
Warmer temperatures have allowed invasive animals like armadillos and black vultures to move this direction.
What is north?
The mathmatical terms for taking the total amount of data and diving it by the number of data sets.
What is the average or mean?
The term that describes non native animals moving in to our place and disrupting the ecosystem.
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.
The number of generations it takes for Monarchs to complete their spring and fall migration.
What is 3-4 migrations?
Missouri's growing zone has warmed of over the past two decades. List a possible positive and negative effect this could have on Missouri's farmer's.
Varied answers (more irrigation, longer growing season, early planting time, etc) is acceptable. Teacher determined.
How we used data to determine if the fish were healthy or not during the fall session.
What is measured length and weight?
Name an invasive bush that is taking over out native forests here at the Nature School.
What is Bush Honeysuckle or Honeysuckle?