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Day Three

10/29/2015

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“H” Colony- ANT HILL BLOG DAY 3- 26th October 2015  

On the 3rd day, we went back to our one specific ant hill and investigate on the Ant Hill surroundings. We had to locate three nearest trees to our ant hill, and measured the distance from each tree to the ant hill. We also had to identify the tree’s species. After we had to measure the circumference of each other tree we chose. After all of the data collecting, we had to plot the positions of where the trees are around the ant hill and also their coordinates. After, we did some predictions, the percentage of the sky that is covered with trees, the percentage of the ground being covered by green plants and mosses. Lastly, we rated the activeness of the Ant Hill and took pictures during our investigation, as shown below.

Guiding Questions:

1) Why might it be interesting to record the size and species of the trees surrounding the colonies?
  • It might be interesting, so that we know the average size and type of the trees surrounding our Ant Colony, and how the size and type of the trees affects our Ant Colony (life of the ants and their food).

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 dependent variable would be the size of the trees and colonies. The dependent variable would be which colony we choose.


3) During the winter months, the snow will often melt off the ant mounds before it melts off the surrounding area. What process of the heat that melts the snow?
  • The snow melts because of the ants giving out energy, and the result of this, the heat from the energy would cause the snow to melt off the ant mound.




Tree Species
  1. Larch
  2. Larch
  3. Larch

Number of Tree
Species of Tree
Circumference (cm)
Distance from Tree to Colony (cm)

1
Coniferous
98.5
40

2
Coniferous
81
86

3
Coniferous
90
366

4
Coniferous
64
289

5
Coniferous
83
186

Coordinates

#1: 46 20 28 N, 6 59 60 E, 344 N

#2: 46 20 28 N, 6 59 60 E, 349 N


#3: 46 20 28 N, 6 59 60 E, 330 NW

#4: 46 20 28 N, 6 59 60 E, 330 NW

#5: 46 20 28 N, 6 59 60 E, 159 S

Canopy Cover: 62.5%

Green Ground Cover: 40%

Ants Activity: 3/10

Height of Colony: 134 cm

Diameter of Colony: 146 cm
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October 08th, 2015

10/8/2015

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Picture
Day 1 - H-Ant hill = Ant Colony Mapping - 28.09.15
On the 1st day, we went to the forest and found Ant hills. Every group had their own area and in our area we found three ant hills. We label each one with a sticker and took a pictures of them.

Day 2 - Data Collection - 05.10.15

On the 2nd day, we went back to one of our 3 ant hill and investigate on it, and see if the ant hill is active or not, and we also used three specimen jars to collect three ants as samples.  

location Longitude: 6°59'59"
Location Latitude: 46°20'23"
Name of our colony: Mars
Canopy cover: 80%
Green ground cover: 50%
Ants activity level: 8

Guiding Questions 
1) Why is it important to map the location of the ants?

- It’s important to map the location of the ants, because mapping the location would help us find where exactly the mound is, for the next time we go back and see the mound and to actually know where it is on a map (google map/earth).


2) Given what you’ve seen of the ants, what factors may be interesting to study?

- Some interesting factors that we may want to study could be how the ant travels from and to their mound. Another could be how they gather food etc.


3) What characteristics of the mounds or the ants did you notice as you recorded their location?
- 
There were not so many of them. It is probably because it was cold outside and it was morning. So ants were probably inside. 

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