Classification Challenge

Kingdom - Animalia (means it’s an animal)

Phylum - Chordata (means it has a backbone)

Class - Mammalia (means nurses its young)

Order - Reptilia (sounds like reptile! )

Family - Chelonioidea 

Genus - Testudines ( Most scientists recognize seven species and one subspecies of sea turtles)

My Animal is similar to the ones in my group because they all are in the animalia kingdom. And they also all have the mammalia class. That is all that is similar about are animals.


Facts about sea turtles:
Sea turtles are large, air-breathing reptiles that inhabit tropical and subtropical seas throughout the world.Only females come ashore to nest; males rarely return to land after crawling into the sea as hatchlings. Most females return to nest on the beach where they were born (natal beach). Nesting seasons occur at different times around the world. In the U.S., nesting occurs from April through October. Most females nest at least twice during each mating season; some may nest up to ten times in a season. A female will not nest in consecutive years, typically skipping one or two years before returning.They grow slowly and take between 15 and 50 years to reach reproductive maturity, depending on the species.It is theorized that they spend their earliest, most vulnerable years floating around the sea in giant beds of sargasso weeds, where they do little more than eat and grow.sea turtles eat seagrass and algae. They are mainly carnivorous as babies they will eat fish and adapt a more herbivorous diet as they age

Cricket behavior investigation

Question: Do crickets prefer fruits or vegetables ?

Hypothesis: I think that crickets will prefer fruits because David put apples into the cricket tanks

Background:  Crickets are omnivorous scavengers who feed on organic materials, as well as decaying plant material, fungi, and some seedling plants. Crickets eat their own dead when there are no other sources of food available, and exhibit predatorial behavior upon weakened, crippled crickets.
Crickets have relatively powerful jaws, and several species have been known to bite humans.
Crickets mate in late summer and lay their eggs in autumn. The eggs hatch in the spring and have been estimated to number as high as 200 per fertile female. Species Acheta domestica however lays eggs almost continually, with the females capable of laying at least twice a month. Female crickets have a long needle-like egg-laying organ called an ovipositor.
Crickets are popular as a live food source for carnivorous pets like frogs, lizards, tortoises, salamanders, and spiders. Feeding crickets with nutritious food in order to pass the nutrition onto animals that eat them is known as gut loading. In addition to this, the crickets are often dusted with a mineral supplement powder to ensure complete nutrition to the pet.

                                                         Experimental setup:

Data Table:

What I DID: What I did was record the data of crickets actions every 30 seconds. He just did everything pretty much everything over and over again. So i wrote out in words what he did and I also  drew an Illustration of how he was in the cage.

What I LEARNED: I learned how to record animal behavior data using pictures. I also learned that the cricket prefer the fruits because he ate apples twice for 2 minutes and never once ate the vegetable. And I also learned that the cricket would walk away before getting more food.

TWIS #6

What I DID : This week in science we did a thing with crickets . And we also work on classification with the dichotomous key. We did a mission challenge with jelly beans we had to Create two types of dichotomous keys in order to classify your Jelly Bellys. And we had to classify them.

What I LEARNED : I learned about different jelly flavors . I also learned In classifying both living and nonliving things, scientists have tried to provide an order to life so that we can better understand the world in which we live. All living organisms are organized (classified) according to genetic relationships. Currently the classification system contains eight levels: Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species.

Shared patterns and physical characteristics among related organisms can be organized and denoted in a classification tool called a dichotomous key. The key is used to identify organisms.  The way we use the key is by answering yes or no questions about characteristics of an organism.  

TWIS #5

What I DID:
This week we started and finsh are conclusion to the rocket challenge. We also launched are rockets and gathered data . We made a super rocket based on the data gathered . And we study the traits and actions of crickets. And watched videos of animal behavior on youtube. When we were observing the crickets we finding out things we can do to are an investigation we are starting next week. 


What I LEARNED:
This week in science I learned about different animal behaviors. I learned about how to use data to improve an experiment. I learned about crickets and I also learned how to put the data in the tables, then put the data tables into a google doc .I also got to learn about different animals behaviors . And how to put videos into are blog.