Preview - From Ecosystems To Speciation

Making Sense of Your Data

Now the teacher will repeat the previous activity, but instead of the bugs being controlled by you and your fellow students, they will move randomly.

Choose one or two bugs to follow, and pay attention to how they affect and are affected by the bugs around them.

Referenced Questions

These questions were answered in the previous steps. They are provided here for your reference.

How successful with the randomly controlled bugs be compared to your previous activity?

How much variation will there be among the randomly controlled bugs compared to your previous activity?

Questions

Please answer the questions below.

Was your prediction about the histogram correct?

Yes
No

How did the outcome of this competition compare to the previous ones?

In the last exploration, bugs were not being controlled by you or anyone intentionally, but were moving about randomly. While viewing the interactions of the bugs what evidence did you notice suggesting that a competition still occurred?

Notes

These notes will appear on every page in this lesson so feel free to put anything here you'd like to keep track of.