Sunday, August 14, 2011

Rollie Pollie (pillbug) Lab

  With this lab me and my group tested how the pillbugs would react to a changing enviorment. In our project we seperated the soil out evenly with an even amount of pill bugs on each side of the choice chamber. On one side of the choice chamber we wet one of the filters (group A) and the other was dry. After we did that we every two minutes for twenty minutes we counted how many pillbugs were in each chamber. After every time interval we noticed that our results were inconsistent. We believe that this could have been affected by lack of time and the stress levels of the pill bugs.  Below are the results of our experiment.


 Time (minutes)
2 min
 4 min
 6 min 
8 min
10 min
12 min
14 min
16 min
18 min
20 min
# of bugs in Chamber "A" (wet)
8
9
5
6
6
5
3
4
4
4
# of bugs in Chamber "B: (dry)
6
5
9
8
8
9
11
10
10
10

1 comment:

  1. It looks like you hurried through this. I don't think that someone outside of our classroom would understand your setup. I like that you included your data table and that you tried to explain your results. What would your next step be?

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