What Do They Do?
Fun Facts
What Do They Eat?
What does this animal do?
100
This word describes what an animal that slows it's body down to save energy and go into a sleep-like state through the entire winter does
What is hibernate?
100
These bushy-tailed rodents are often scurrying out and about in winter, searching for stashed nuts and seeds (and maybe stealing from your bird feeders!)
What are gray squirrels?
100
White-tail deer primarily eat this woody vegetation in the winter because it is most abundant
What are twigs/branches?
100
Hibernate
200
This word describes what an animal who goes somewhere else during the winter does
What is migrate?
200
This animal migrates from the ocean to a small sea to find a safe place for their babies.
Salmon
200
What are two foods that a bear eats?
Fish, nuts, berries
200
Camouflage (adapt)
300
This word describes what animals do that stay put for the winter but change their appearance or behavior
What is adapt?
300
In very large groups, they migrate over multiple generations.
Monarch Butterflies
300
Honeybees, though non-native, are beneficial to many plants in our area. Through the winter, they survive by eating this, which they have stored in their hive.
What is honey?
300
Collect/Store food (adapt)
400
An animal that mostly sleeps through the winter but wakes up occasionally goes through this:
What is torpor?
400
This animal makes the longest migration.
Arctic Tern
400
Beavers leave behind a lot of evidence that they were there, including "chews" on small and large trees. Large trees are typically only missing this, which makes up the beavers diet
What is bark?
400
Name 3 different things that help this animal survive winter.
1. Large, wide feet
2. Thick, two layered fur
3. Camouflage
4. Hibernate
5. Blubber
500
This is what we call hibernation for ectotherms (cold-blooded animals like turtles and frogs)
What is brumation?
500
Though their camouflage can make them hard to see, this animal's footprints, shaped like hearts, are the most common animal prints to see in the mud or snow. They change their diet in the winter.
White-Tailed Deer
500
This animal will eat leftover food from a polar bear's hunt.
Arctic Fox
500
Camouflage