Across
- 1. What is the average weather conditions in one place over a long time?
- 7. Plant seeds usually grow in the (winter/spring) when water is more plentiful.
- 9. Living things ________, or react, to ecosystems changes with the seasons.
- 10. Trees store what in spring and summer before they are dormant during the winter months?
- 11. Animals can get water through the _______ they eat, not just from rivers and ponds!
- 13. What is it called when animals become less active during the winter?
- 14. When is the average rainfall in Florida the greatest?
- 15. Many ecosystems ________ along with the seasons.
Down
- 2. Since Florida winters are not as cold as in most regions in the United States, plants have (longer/shorter) growing seasons.
- 3. All the living and nonliving things that interact in an area is called what?
- 4. Animals can change the _________ of their fur to help them camouflage during the changes in the seasons.
- 5. What is another word for when plants or animals are not active at all?
- 6. In the winter, the American bullfrog digs a hole in the _____ and hibernates underwater.
- 8. This kind of ecosystem is a grassland ecosystem with hot summers and cold winters.
- 12. What is it called when animals move in large groups to the warm south in the fall and back north in the spring?