This week in science #7

This month we started a new project about biomes.   A biome is a large part of earth that consists of different plants, animals, climate, their geology, and location on earth (by latitude and longitude) for each place.  With knowing this we started a project where we got into groups, of at most 4, and we each picked a biome or place on earth that we can study and research.  We had to find out the climate, location, vegetation, and landforms.  that's only thing first part.  My groups did a specific tropical island instead of a biome like the other groups, we did an called Christmas Island.  On another day David and Jamie gave us each group a letter and since our climate was tropical and warm, our letter said that our climate has gone 100,000 years into the future and the island was covered in snow.  We had to make a slide showing the difference in our island,  we had to each pick an animal on the island that has newly adapted to the cold winter wonderland like island, and give it new features that will help it survive.  When we were done with the slides we wrote side note called Speaker Notes that helped us when narrating our slides.  Then we used something called ScreenCast.

This month we also learned many things.  For example we learned about many biomes and what biomes are.  Also i learned more about an island that i've heard about but never really researched.  I learned where it is located, what life it inhabits, and much more.  One main focus animal i had to research was the Red Crab.  The island is filled with the crabs especially because of their year migration to the ocean.  I is said that all is seen is a big red blanket covering the whole island.  I also learned how much a tropical island is changed by changing its climate, it affects the entire island and all in it.  Another thing was that i found out that Christmas Island isn't all about Christmas.  I learned many computer tricks and new things to do on the computer, like speaker notes and how to use them.  Also I now know what a Screen Cast is and how cool it is when using it.  I really liked doing this project and I hope we do this again.

Cricket Investigation

Background Research:
Crickets have many necessities.  One of their needs are that since they are omnivores and scavengers 


Question:
Do crickets prefer fruits or vegetables?


Hypothesis:
If on one side of the tank we put a fruit and on the other side a vegetable, then the crickets will prefer the fruit better,  because the fruit decays faster and is moister.   


Experimental Setup:

This is an image of the cricket tank showing the fruit (apples) on the left side and vegetables (celery), and cricket on the right side.











Data Table:
 I took 4 trails of method 2.  Method 2 shows there  precise movement from either side of the tank.

Conclusion:
During the investigation, I notice that the crickets preferred both the fruit and vegetables equally.  The cricket mostly spent its time hopping around, but it spend 50% of its time on either foods.  I took 4 trials in two of the trials the cricket hopped around ignoring the food.  For the other two trials the cricket either ate apples or ate celery equally.  So this proves that the cricket did not only prefer apples over celery.