SIGNS OF SPRING
These colorful flowers are often the first to bloom in spring.
What are tulips?
This holiday often includes egg hunts and baskets.
What is Easter?
These buzzing insects help pollinate flowers.
What are bees?
In Japan, people celebrate spring by viewing cherry blossoms.
What is Hanami?
“April showers bring” these.
What are May flowers?
This weather event brings frequent rain and helps plants grow.
What are spring showers?
This March holiday celebrates Irish culture with green attire.
What is St. Patrick’s Day?
Trees grow these new green parts in spring.
What are leaves?
This season is autumn in Australia when it is spring in the U.S.
What is fall?
This phrase means a fresh start.
What is “turn over a new leaf”?
Many animals do this after a long winter sleep.
What is hibernation ending?
This April holiday is dedicated to environmental awareness.
What is Earth Day?
This process allows plants to make food using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
This famous springtime bicycle race is held in France.
What is the Paris–Roubaix?
This baby animal is a young sheep, often born in spring.
What is a lamb?
This time of year has more daylight due to the tilt of the Earth.
What is spring?
This Jewish holiday celebrates freedom and includes a Seder meal.
What is Passover?
These female flower parts receive pollen for reproduction.
What are pistils?
This ancient Persian New Year celebration marks the arrival of spring.
What is Nowruz?
This term describes the instinct-driven behavior of birds nesting in spring.
What is breeding behavior?
This astronomical event officially marks the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the vernal equinox?
This Asian spring festival is known as the Festival of Colors.
What is Holi?
This term describes the transfer of pollen from one plant to another by wind or animals.
What is pollination?
This line of latitude experiences the sun directly overhead during the spring equinox.
What is the Equator?
This scientific term refers to seasonal biological changes in plants and animals.
What is phenology?