Seeds have this COATING all over their outside. It helps protect the baby plant, or embryo, inside.

Seed coat
I hibernate. Sometimes people keep me as pets and there is a character named Sonic that is based on me. What animal am I?

A hedgehog!
Precipitation is when water does what?

Water falls to the ground
This is the very first principle of leave no trace. It goes: Know before you ___, Hint: look at Ranger Lokey for a clue.
Know before you GO
What event will we have at the end of the year to share our class science experiment?
Science Fair
True or False:Plants grow wherever and whenever with or without water, soil, and sunlight.
False, plants are dormant til they have what they need to grow.
I don't hibernate. I live in trees and the way I get my energy in the winter is from the food I hide away during the fall. What animal am I?

A tree squirrel
Accumulation

Water gathers all around
This is the second principle of leave no trace. It says to choose the right path. Do the symbol we learned for this with your hands.
Take two fingers an walk them down your arm
Name a raptor we've met at the Raptor Center.
Theo, Guffey, Jasper, Ruby, Nate.. etc.
True or false: Plants can stay inactive, or dormant for hundreds or even thousands of years.
True!
True or false: It can take an animal like a groundhog months off preparation and eating to get ready for their hibernation period.
True, they gain a lot of weight in order to store up their fat for the winter months.
Evaporation

Water rises from the ground
The symbol for the third principle of leave no trace is three fingers because there are 3 words: Trash your ______
Trash
The quality and act of being friendly, generous, and considerate.

Kindness
When a seed germinates, or begins to grow, the roots will always go in ______ direction? Hint: Do they go up, sideways, or down?

Down into the ground
Instead of hibernation or dormancy, some animals move around to avoid this cold. Birds are adapted to doing this by flying south for the winter.
Migration
Transpiration

Plants sweat the water out
Leave no trace and smokey the bear agree: You should always be careful with what?
Fire!
This symbol is for on of the Leave no trace principles and it means to take only pictures, therefore ____ what you find.
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Leave
This happens when a seed has everything it needs to start growing. It's the process by which something begins to grow or develop.
Germination
During the winter time, food gets difficult to find. By hibernating or migrating animals have an easier time of _____ the harsh winter months
Surviving
Condensation

Water forms into a cloud
There are two things we need to be respectful of while out on hikes or just in nature in general. We move to one side of the sidewalk or try to be quiet so we don't disrupt them.
Other people and wildlife.
What animal lives along the river in lodges they build out of trees?
Beaver