Animal Ears Lab

 Summarize
The purpose of this lab is to show how large eared animal rely on their ears to avoid predators and rely on theirs ears to find prey, so many of the animals ears swivel in different directions to pick on prey coming or predators.
What are we testing and how??
We were testing how far you could hear the pen click as you back up farther and farther back from the person clicking the pen, who was Mrs. Richardson that was checking the pen.

Table

Student	Distance with Normal Ears	Distance with Enhanced Ear
Jessie	27.9	52.9
Albert	55	50
Reese	45	60
Tangie	68.6	58.6
Brandon W.	58.6	78.6
Kasey	25.3	15.3
David	40.6	55.6
Emily P	30.6	55.6
Sierra	53.8	55.6
Stephanie	34.4	47.8
RaeShar	57	63.7
Rayshawn	47.6	41.6
Montez	45.6	30.6
Devon	51.6	87.9
TJ	40.6	63.3
Travis	50.6	55.6
Conner	89.7	128.9
Brandon H	58.6	87.2
Emily S	64.7	76.3
Total	945.8	1135.1
Average	49.77	59.7

Bar Graph

Answer Question from the box
Yes, it made differences because of the simple fact that the ears made us able to hear farther away as we backed up from the pen clicking, but it was also the conditions we had to. Like the wind blowing and people talking, like if the wind was in your favor then you could hear the pen clicking farther back then usually because the wind would carry the pen clicking making it louder. People talking also blocked out the pen clicking.

Large Eared Animals

Fennec Fox

African Bush Elephant

 Bat Eared Fox

Brown Large Eared Bat

Large Eared Jerboa

Small Eared Animals

Ferret

Polar Bear

Chipmunks

Spring Has Sprung in a Decidous Forest Biome

Site 1- Edge of Field

-See: Butterflies, flowers crab grass, bumble bees, thorns, grass, trees, twigs, sticks, pine cones, tree roots

-Hear: A quiet forest

-Feel: Heat, sunlight, a little breeze

Taken By Riley

Taken  By Riley

Site 2- Pond

*See: Flowers, currents in the pond, cattails, tree buds, grass, dirt, rocks, tree, tree roots, acorn, pine cones,

*Hear: Bird chirping

*Feel: Little breeze, sunlight, heat

Taken By Riley

Site 3- Creek

+See: Frogs, skunk cabbage, baby frogs, algae, spiders, crayfish, mushrooms, moss, flower, raccoon footprints, baby ferns, buttress tree roots

+Hear: Quiet forest

+Feel: Little Breeze, sunlight

Taken By Riley

Taken By Riley

Taken By Riley

Ecology observation #3 4-8-11

Eco Tower Observation #3

I observed along with my fellow group members that: the guppies have completely decomposed and the body parts are in pieces floating in the water. The worm has turned a reddish, brown color and all the crickets are dead, so are all the worms. The snails are dead as well. The beans seem to be very well still, four out of the five of them are growing in their correct position. The other one is still growing but its bottom and roots are still out of the soil but the head is still find of buried in the soil, and they are all about 3 1/2 to 4 inches tall. Algae is no longer staying up: they are floating on the waters surface. The water is really cloudy and the algae is slowly breaking down/ decomposing into little pieces. The grass has turned dark brown and looks very moist.

EcoTower Observation #1 March 25, 2011

3/25/11

We got our ecotowers and saw that: the bean plants are growing out the soil, but they are not growing straight up, but leaning kind of. We had a total of 12 worms and they all died except for one, one of our worms has started to decompose and has already started to turn a blueish green color. All of the guppies(5) were floating belly up, their eyes have turned white, and their bodies are breaking apart. The crickets(5) turned dark brown and they were on their backs. The water has become a little cloudy, bits and pieces of the fish are floating upside down at the surface of the water. All of our algae(5) has broken loose from the pebbles and has floated to the top and all of the tiny parts of the fish floating in the water seem to be very static.

EcoTower Sealing Day

 EcoTower

Why did we do this project?

We did this project to see the different cycles work together and see the cycles collaborate together to keep everything in balance and also see the cycle keep the abiotic and biotic in perspective.

Group members?

In my group it was Riley Lee Evens, Conner Atkinson, Brandon Harris, and me Marcus Henson

Group Members brought in?

Marcus (me)-Pebbles, Algae

Riley- Two 2-liter bottles, Algae

Conner- Duct tape, Soil, Worms, Algae

Brandon- Worms, Electric Tape, Algae

Borrowed the fish, snails, and crickets

 The Cycles?

In our ecotower, we worked with the Carbon, Nitrogen, and Water cycle

Plants and Animals?

In the ecotower, the animals we had were crickets, worms, five or more guppies, the plants we had were Algae, Grass, and beans

I Snuck a peek and saw?:(:(:(

That the others crickets we had put in their had died, so all together a total of seven crickets have died in our tower but in good news the fish were still living

Taken By Conner

Succession and Abiotic Factors

Communities change everyday, so does the factors (Abiotic) in that ecosystem. Abiotic factors include light, temperature, and moisture, they influence the amount and types of organisms that are able to survive and thrive in the succession stage. Biotic and Abiotic factors change everyday. The relationship between succession site and temperature is that shade, grass, or mud can affect temperature. The biotic factors that influence the surface temperature at the sites are different because it depends one the site. Like the black top had none because of the factor their is no abiotic or biotic factors. So depending on the site, depends on the abiotic or biotic factors their.

Site 1: Black Top

Site 2: Baseball Field

Site 3: Grass

Site 4: Plant

Site 5: Tree

 

Abiotic Factors of LCHS

Signs of Spring

Sign 1- Edge of field



Taken By Riley

See- I saw plants growing, logs, trees, pipes, pebbles, pine cones, leaves, clumps of dirt, tree buds, tree leaves, dirt

Hear- Crows crowing, trees rustling

Feel- Crisp breeze blowing

Picture- Leaf on a twig



Taken By Riley



Taken By Riley



Sign 2- By the pond

See- I saw waves in the pond, cattails, twigs, leaves (brown), trees, pine trees, grass, pine cones, insect home, algae, thorns, Alder Catkins

Hear- I heard crows crowing, leaves rustling, and the waves hitting the bank/dock of the pond

Feel- I felt cool, sunlight on my face and clothes, wind-breeze, pain from the thorns hitting my leg

Picture- Buds on a tree, Alder Catkins



Taken By Emily



Sign 3- In the wood



Taken By Emily



See- I saw a Butterfly, red branches because of signs of new spring growth, pine trees, pine cones, an acorn that partially eaten, trees swaying, green moss, leaves, green tree bush

Hear- I heard frogs stating their dominance to other frogs

Feel- Small breeze, cool enough to block out the heat, sunlight

Picture- Red branches, woods




Taken By Emily

 

Sign 4- Front of School



Taken By Riley



See- I saw grass, dirt, roots (tree roots), trees, acorns, rocks, red buds on trees, tree branches swaying

Hear- I heard leaves rustling, tree branches swaying

Feel- I felt cool because of the cool breeze hitting me from all sides, warm because of the heat from the sun shining on me

Picture- Buds on a tree




Taken By Riley



Site Observations Day 5

Site 1: Top of the Trail

Organism- Green Plant

Species- Dryopteris arguta

Population- Baby plants

Community- trees, leaves, other plants

Ecosystem- wind, sun, tree, leaves, other plants, logs, fallen trees

See- I saw trees, spider webs, plants, logs, bugs, leaves, signs of spring, stump, thorns, thorns bushes, salamander

Feel- I felt a nice, cool, crisp breeze that made me feel calm and relaxed

Hear- I heard people talking, airplanes flying overhead, cars trees rustling, bird chirping


Taken By Riley



Taken by Mrs. Richardson

Site 2: Small Creek

Organism-Crayfish

Species- Crustaceans

Population- Baby crayfish

Community- Tadpoles, dragonfly larva, frogs

Ecosystem- Tadpoles, dragonfly larva, frogs, sunlight, wind

See- I saw tadpoles, frogs, pine trees, trees, logs, crayfish, bugs, dragonfly larva, rocks

Feel- I felt a warm breeze, sunlight, bugs flying
Hear- I heard leaves rustling, people talking, leaves crunching



Taken By Mrs. Richardson

Taken by Mrs. Richardson



Site 3: Another part of the Small Creek

Organism- Frog

Species- Amphibian

Population- Tadpoles

Community- Bugs, Frogs, Tadpoles

Ecosystem- Bugs, Frogs, Tadpoles, Sun, Wind, Leaves

See- I saw frogs, a creek, thorns, logs, rocks, steps, branches, trees ripples from the frog

Feel- I felt heat, sunlight, a small breeze

Hear- I heard the mini waves/current in the creek, the frog as it hit the water

Taken by Mrs. Richardson

Site 4: Beside the Pond

Organism- Canadian Geese

Species- Branta canadensis

Population- Baby Geese

Community- fish, birds

Ecosystem- fish, bird, sun, wind, cattails, algae

See- I saw 7 or more geese in the pond, cattails, pine tree, buses, cars, dock, gate, rocks, pine cones, acorns, roots, algae, birds

Feel- I felt the heat on my skin from being out in the open, little wind

Hear- I heard cars on the near by road, people talking, leaves crunching

Taken By Emily

Site Observations Day 4

Site 1: Pond

Pictures taken by Emily Seay

Animal

Geese's

I saw 10 brown and white geese and some all brown Canadian geese (Branta canadensis) in the pond, belonging to the Animalia kingdom

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Branta_canadensis.html

Plant

Cattail

I saw cattails (Typha latifolia) by the pond belonging to the Plant Kingdom http://www.apms.org/plants/cattail.htm

Fungus on a log

Site 2: Creek

Fungus on a log

On the log their is fungus that I saw by the pond belonging to the Plant kingdom

(Bacidia incompta)

http://www.arkive.org/lichen/bacidia-incompta/

Skunk Cabbage

Skunk Cabbage

I saw skunk cabbage by the creek, it was like a orange being pilled, it was red, green, white, and yellow in color by the creek belonging to the plant kingdom. (Symplocarpus foetidus)

http://ontariowildflowers.com/main/species.php?id=105 

 Animal

Raccoon Footprints

Belonging to the Animal Kingdom, the picture is a picture of raccoon footprints

Procyon lotor

http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/raccoon.htm 

 Site 3: Deep Woods 

Animal

Belonging to the Animal Kingdom, I saw a bee sleeping in a log, the bee was yellow and black.

Dolichovespula maculata. Bald-facedhornet

http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/bald-faced_hornet.htm

Bald Face Hornet

-I saw all the animals and plants that I have included from

the bee to the skunk cabbage to the raccoon tracks.

-I felt the wind and the sun as they both brushed my face,

warming me and chilling me at the same time

-I heard my fellow classmates talk and buses and cars on the road

near by.

Site Observations Day 3, Site #'s 1, 2, 3, 4

Site 1

I saw leaves, grass, trees, a creek, rocks, weeds.

I heard water coming through a pipe, leaves crunching, a van coming by me.

I felt the sunlight, and a cool breeze blowing.

Site 2

I saw trees, leaves, little holes in a pine tree and below the tree was dead moss, also a wood pecker pecked a hole in another pine tree, thorns, pine needles, fungus, and an oak gall.
I heard leaves crunching, also complete and total silent, it was peaceful.
I felt the warm rays of the sun as they reached down and touched my face, but at the same time I felt the cold breeze pick up and ice my nose and ears.

Site 3

I saw fungus, holes in a dead log, leaves, trees, dead leaves and grass, and more thorns.
I heard leaves crunching, an airplane soaring in the distance.
I felt the sunlight warming up my face and also the cool air chilling my face.

Site 4

I saw a acorn that was half ate, moss, trees, leaves, logs, tree trunks, trees, dirt, sticks, a hill, rocks, thorns, a stump, bird, pond, and seaweed.

I heard leaves crunching, crows crowing, and dead silence.

I felt sunlight and also a little wind because of the fact we was between the trees.