Many plants grow in the spring and summer and become dormant during the fall and winter explain what triggers dormancy in a plant and explain the benefits of winter dormancy for those plants

What triggers it is no more sun because plants use a system called photosynthesis and they need sun to do that so when there is no sun they wount grow so going doesn’t helps them stay Alive with no sun

Well, both latitude and intensity of light affect temperature because, the higher the light intensity, the higher the temperature and since latitude is the measure of how close you are to the equator, then the closer to the equator you are, the higher the temperature is.