Thursday, January 27, 2011

Making Waves Lab

Guiding Question: How does a wave travel in various liquids?
Hypothesis: I think that if the liquid has more density the wave will travel slower, and when it has less density then it will go faster.

Materials:
     Plastic pan
     water
     oil
     chocolate milk
     flour and water (mixed)
     modeling clay
     Boll

Procedure:
1.    Fill the plastic pan with one of the liquids. If you want to do it first with flour and water you have to mix it up in boll.
2.    Get the modeling clay and try to make waves by putting it in the clay but don’t touch the bottom of the pan!!!
3.    Look how big is the wave length and how far it goes. If it comes back to the start or not. Record that in the table below.
4.    Then do Data Analysis, and conclusion!



Data Table:
Liquid
Observation


Oil
a little wave that doesn’t go until the other side of the pan

Water
a big wave that goes until the other side and comes back

flour and water mix
a little smaller then the water wave and goes until the middle of the pan






Data Analysis: The oil has the most density so the waves are slower than the water and the water with flour. So that means that the density does effect the wavelength and the frequency.

Conclusion: In conclusion my hypothesis was right. I wrote the density of the liquid does effect the wavelength and it will go slower as I thought. 

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Analyzing Owl Prey


Based upon the class data, rank the most frequently consumed prey for the class "owl population".


A predator expends energy when hunting for food. Which is the more "energy expensive"cuisine, 35 insects at 1 g each one 35 g vole?


Based upon your data, supposed the shrew population seriously declined. Would it affect the areas owl population?

Wednesday, January 12, 2011