Last week, our B period class with Mr.Leonard went to the forest next to the Beau Revil and find the wood ant. Demi, Thomas and I are in a group, we found the C ant colony. We inserted the stick on the ant colony which shows it mapped by our group and easier to distinguish them.
Guiding Questions:
- Why is it important to map the location of the ants?
Because we wanted to know what location do the ants always build their colony, and we also wanted to find the reason. - Given what you’ve seen of the ants, what factors my be interesting to study.
There are always be millions of ants stay and work together. I want to know why there are huge ants and they still can work and live. - What characteristics of the mounds or the ants did you notice as you recorded their location?
The colony was like a small mountain or a hill, ants going around the mountain and collect the factors make it bigger. I saw they took the dead insect from the path to their home. I think that they eat the dead insect to get the energy.
Day Two
Guiding Questions:
1. What are some of the biotic and abiotic factors surrounding the ant colonies?
Obviously the biotic surrounding by the an colonies are the ants. And the biotic stuff I think are the grass and plants.
2. Where do the ants get the energy needed to live and thrive? Think about the path that energy takes throuth the ecosystem.
In my opinion, ants may take the energy from natural, I have seen once time they took a dead insect from the path to their colony. I think that might be the food or energy for the ants.
3. What factors would you like to measure next?
Luminosity.
1. What are some of the biotic and abiotic factors surrounding the ant colonies?
Obviously the biotic surrounding by the an colonies are the ants. And the biotic stuff I think are the grass and plants.
2. Where do the ants get the energy needed to live and thrive? Think about the path that energy takes throuth the ecosystem.
In my opinion, ants may take the energy from natural, I have seen once time they took a dead insect from the path to their colony. I think that might be the food or energy for the ants.
3. What factors would you like to measure next?
Luminosity.
Step 1:
GPS
Longitude: 7,0,0
Latitude: 46, 20,31
GPS
Longitude: 7,0,0
Latitude: 46, 20,31
Step 2:
Stand at the base of the mound and look up into the canopy ( tree cover). What percentage of the sky is covered with trees? Have each member of your group do this to find an average.
Canopy Cover% : 90%
Stand at the base of the mound and look up into the canopy ( tree cover). What percentage of the sky is covered with trees? Have each member of your group do this to find an average.
Canopy Cover% : 90%
Step 3:
Stand at the base of the mound and look at the green ground cover ( the green plants and mosses covering the ground, if any). What percentage of the ground is covered with plants and mosses? Have each member of your group do this to find an average.
Green Ground Cover%: 25%
Stand at the base of the mound and look at the green ground cover ( the green plants and mosses covering the ground, if any). What percentage of the ground is covered with plants and mosses? Have each member of your group do this to find an average.
Green Ground Cover%: 25%
Step 4:
Activity Level: Do the ants seen activity today? That is, are there a lot of ants outside the mound and are the ants moving quickly or slowly? On a scale of 1-10, rate how active the ants are, with 1 being no activity and 10 being lots of activity.
Rating: 30%
Activity Level: Do the ants seen activity today? That is, are there a lot of ants outside the mound and are the ants moving quickly or slowly? On a scale of 1-10, rate how active the ants are, with 1 being no activity and 10 being lots of activity.
Rating: 30%
Day Three
The key purpose today’s lab: To further examine the location of the wood ant colonies and begin to untangle the factors affecting the size, range, and behavioural characteristics of the wood ants.
Guiding Questions:
1. Why might it be interesting to record the size and species of the trees surrounding the colonies?
Because we want to find out what is the normal size of the trees that near to the ant colonies and what kind of species that have much quantity around the ant colonies.
2. If you wanted to study the effect of tree size on the size of the and colonies, what would be your dependent variable? Your independent variable?
Independent variable is the tree size because we don’t think that if the ant colony changes the size of the tree. But for the and colony we think if it near by a bigger tree it will grow bigger because bigger tree can provide more energy for ants.
3. During the winter months, the snow will often melt off the ant mounds before it melts off the surrounding area. What precess off the heat that melts the snow?
Because ants give the energy and produce the heat to melt the snow. So that the colony won’t be sinked by water. Also because of the tree will take the water from ground, it helps ant to get water.
Guiding Questions:
1. Why might it be interesting to record the size and species of the trees surrounding the colonies?
Because we want to find out what is the normal size of the trees that near to the ant colonies and what kind of species that have much quantity around the ant colonies.
2. If you wanted to study the effect of tree size on the size of the and colonies, what would be your dependent variable? Your independent variable?
Independent variable is the tree size because we don’t think that if the ant colony changes the size of the tree. But for the and colony we think if it near by a bigger tree it will grow bigger because bigger tree can provide more energy for ants.
3. During the winter months, the snow will often melt off the ant mounds before it melts off the surrounding area. What precess off the heat that melts the snow?
Because ants give the energy and produce the heat to melt the snow. So that the colony won’t be sinked by water. Also because of the tree will take the water from ground, it helps ant to get water.
Number of Tree
type of the tree
circumference(cm)
Distance from the tree to colony(cm)
#1
deciduous
100 cm
210 cm
#2
deciduous
230 cm
280 cm
#3
deciduous
103 cm
420 cm
type of the tree
circumference(cm)
Distance from the tree to colony(cm)
#1
deciduous
100 cm
210 cm
#2
deciduous
230 cm
280 cm
#3
deciduous
103 cm
420 cm
1.We had to stand next to the base of the mound and look up to the canopy cover, and see what percentage of sky is covered with trees with a 5 meter radius of the colony and it come out to be 80% which is quite a lot.
2. Again we stood on the base of the mound and now we where looking at the green ground cover ( the green plants and mosses covering the ground, if any). It turned out to be 40%
3.Then we checked the activity of the colony and and we come up with a scale form 1-10 to see how active it. Because the weather is cold, rating is 1.
4. We checked the hight of the colony and it was 140cm
5.We checked the diameter of the colony and it was 130m
