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Ethology Report
Partner A:
Partner B:
Research Question: What do animals do when they are
living at Race Rocks and how much time did they spend doing it?
Our hypotheses were:
Fill in the following chart and answer the discussion questions.
Go to Race Rocks to see the weather.
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observed: |
Location:
Race Rocks |
| Date and
Time: |
Weather
Conditions: |
| Water Conditions
(rough, rippled, smooth): |
Total Observation
Time (mins): |
| Date of
Observation: |
Time of
Observation: |
Interesting
characteristics about my animal:
List of the
behaviours I observed:
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Total
Time |
Percentage
of Total Time |
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Graph of Different Activities
Percentage
of time my animal spent doing different activities:
(Insert your graph here)
Discussion Questions:
- Which activities did
your animal do
- For the longest period
of time?
- Most frequently?
- Least frequently?
- What did you notice
when you were trying to classify behavioural activities into broad categories?
- Why do you think you
should collect data at
- The same time of day?
- The same time of the
year?
- How do you think your animal's activity would change if the weather
were different?
- How
does your animal use Race Rocks as a habitat? (What does it do while it
is there?)
- Discuss how you think that a change in the Race
Rocks habitat can affect the survival of your organism and/or its entire
species?
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