Effects of seasons on plants and animals

 Describe the effects of seasons on plants 

Plants can respond to the change of seasons by losing their leaves, flowering or breaking dormancy. Plants go through seasonal changes after detecting differences in day length. 

Some plants are sensitive to different lengths of the day or night, a response known as photoperiodism. Plants use this ability to help them adapt to seasonal changes in their environment and ensure key points in their life cycle, such as flowering and leaf fall take place at the right time.

•Plants are green in summer.

•Plants loose leaves in winter.

•Plants have flowers in spring.

•Plants  flowers wilt when it is cold.

Describe the effects of seasons on animals

Animals follow the seasons very closely. Changes in the  length of the day or temperatures affect the animal's hormone production and cause them to behave according to the season. For that reason animals instinctively know when it's time for them to mate, build a nest, fly south or stock up food for winter.

•Animals give birth in summer.

•Animals spread out during Autumn and summer.

•Migrant birds start leaving in winter.

•Migrant birds return in winter.

•Springboks have young ones during  spring.