Patterns of Change
A pattern noted in the monarch butterfly population beginning in 2013 through current times.
What is the monarch population is in decline.
A change in an animal to help it survive in its habitat.
What is adaptation?
The reason changing daylight hours affect the monarch butterfly's migration.
What is monarch butterfly's do not fly in the dark?
The reason monarchs need flowering plants.
What is monarchs eat nectar?
This is a minute by minute change in our atmosphere.
What is weather?
A change in the pattern in the monarch butterfly's habitat that helps the monarch know to start its migration south.
What is the weather in The United Stated and Canada becomes cold?
A pinkish plant a monarch caterpillar needs to eat in order to grow and move to the chrysalis stage in the life cycle.
What is milkweed?
Most monarch butterflies leave the northern portion of North America and migrate to Mexico during these four months.
What are August, September, October, November?
The reason adult monarch butterflies are poisonous.
What is monarch butterflies get their poison from eating milkweed in the pupa stage?
What the weather is like over a long period of time in a specific area.
What is climate?
A change in the pattern in the monarch butterfly's habitat that helps the monarch know to start its migration north.
What is the weather in Mexico becomes too warm?
The name for a distance traveled by a monarch butterfly to insure its survival.
What is migration?
Most monarch butterflies leave Mexico and migrate to the northern portion of North America during these four months.
What is March, April, May and June?
In addition to climate change, three other human impacts are causing monachs to have a decline in population.
What are:
pestiside use,
over mowing and
deforestation?
NASA has recently changed the term Global Warming to this more accurate term.
What is Climate Change?
A change in the pattern in the temperature in Michigan during August 2010-2017.
What is the temperature is staying warm longer?
The cluster monarch butterflies settle, rest and prepare for flight in.
What is roost?
The reasons monarchs need to find
flowering plants,
milkweed,
and unpopulated areas while migrating.
What is
flowering plants: for food/nectar,
milk weed: to lay eggs and feed the pupa,
unpopulated areas: safe places for roosting.
Two things humans can to to help monarch butterflies.
What are plant milkweed
provide nectar plants,
limit pestiside use,
Limit mowing
The reason monarchs are starting their yearly migration late.
What is it is not getting cold in late summer to signal the monarchs to start the migration?
or
What is due to climate change?
A pattern noted in Michigan's rainfall in October vs in August which causes the monarch trouble if it leaves later.
What is there is more rainfall in October than in August.
The direction the monarch butterfly's population is heading.
The population is in _______
What is in decline?
Three weather occuracnces that cause the monarch difficulty when migrating.
What are too much/too little rain,
strong wind,
too cold/ too hot temperatures.
One physical adaptation of the monarch butterfly.
One behavioral adapatation of the monarch butterfly.
What is
physical adaptation: coloration is a warning to predators, egg laying on milkweed and pupa eating milk weed as its only food source
behavioral adaptation: roosting, migration
Monarchs know when to migrate south because ___.
Monarchs know when to migrate north because ___.
What is it gets too cold and food becomes scarce?
What is it gets to hot in Mexico and pupae will not live?