Answer Key

Plant and Animal Adaptation to Fire

Pitch Pine: thick bark, serotinous cones, stump sprouting

Oaks: stump sprouting

Bracken Fern: rhizomes, extensive underground stems that send up new leafy shoots

Huckleberry: rhizomes, extensive underground stems that send up new leafy shoots

Birds: flying away

Turtles: burrowing in mud

Fish: living in water

Frogs: hopping away, burrowing in mud

Insects: flying away

Small Mammals: scurrying away