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 behavioral characteristics of the wood ants.
Guiding Questions:
Because we want to find out what is the normal size of a tree 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?
My independent variable is the tree size because I don’t think that the and colony could change the size of the tree, but for the and colony I think that if it near by a bigger tree it will grow bigger because bigger tree can provide more energy fot 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 the ground, it helps ant very much.
Our colony letter is C.
Number of Tree
type of the tree
circumference(cm)
Distance from the tree to colony(cm)
#1
decidious
100 cm
210 cm
#2
decidious
230 cm
280 cm
#3
decidious
103 cm
420 cm
Data:
1.We had to stand next to the base of the mound and look up to the conopy 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 85% 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 grean plants and mossses covering the ground, if any). It truned out to be 40%
3.Then we checked the accticvity of the colony and and we come up with a scale form 1-10 to see how active it.
4. We chceked the hight of the colony and it was 85cm
5.We chcked the diameter of the colony and it was 5.5m
To further examine the location of the wood ant colonies and begin to untangle the factors affecting the size, range, and behavioral characteristics of the wood ants.
Guiding Questions:
- 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 a tree 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?
My independent variable is the tree size because I don’t think that the and colony could change the size of the tree, but for the and colony I think that if it near by a bigger tree it will grow bigger because bigger tree can provide more energy fot 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 the ground, it helps ant very much.
Our colony letter is C.
Number of Tree
type of the tree
circumference(cm)
Distance from the tree to colony(cm)
#1
decidious
100 cm
210 cm
#2
decidious
230 cm
280 cm
#3
decidious
103 cm
420 cm
Data:
1.We had to stand next to the base of the mound and look up to the conopy 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 85% 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 grean plants and mossses covering the ground, if any). It truned out to be 40%
3.Then we checked the accticvity of the colony and and we come up with a scale form 1-10 to see how active it.
4. We chceked the hight of the colony and it was 85cm
5.We chcked the diameter of the colony and it was 5.5m
