The activities are as follows: Climate change is causing Earth’s average temperature to rise, but warming is not the only change happening. Climate change can affect many parts of an ecosystem at the same time. For example, in the Rocky Mountains, temperatures are getting warmer, and the climate is also getting drier. This means that
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Flowers chasing spring
How does a plant know when to make a flower? Their phenology, or seasonal timing of growth and reproduction, can be driven by many things. When the weather warms in the spring, many plants start to make flowers when temperatures are just right. Other plants follow the number of hours with sunlight. In one very particular