Cricket Investigation

Question:
 Do crickets prefer rough or smooth environments?

Hypothesis:
The crickets will stay in the rough environments because they usually are in rough places in nature .

Background research :
crickets need?
- a place to hide
-food
    -plant decay
    -fruits
    -meet and other organic food
-place to for them to cliam on
-place for females to lay there eggs
Interesting fact?
cricket are related to grass hoppers

 Enviorment set up:

This was our expieramental set up .There is a round sheet of sand paper.

Data table: We had to collect data in some way to find out weather or not crickets like rough smooth gound  
 

 Explanation : we were trying to figure out if cricket like rough ground or smooth ground .we set up the tank for the crickets .we left the tank bottom on one side because its already smooth and on the side  my group put  a round piece of sand paper .My method for collecting data was to draw the tank and draw were ever the cricket went for 2mins.

  

Conclusion:After conducting this experiment I  have come to the conclusion that crickets prefer smooth ground.I came to my conclusion because it stayed off the rough sand paper most of the time .

this Week In Science #6

This week I did:

We worked with our teams to do dichotomous keys then collect data on the crickets.That was one of our mission challeges .we use the different methodes  to see weather crickets like being on wet land or dry land.Half of the of the tank we put the crickets in was covered in wat nappkins ,the other half was coverd in dry nappkins.Then we did  another mission challege .This time we work  with jelly belly jelly beans. we had to use to diffrent methodes to classify the diffrent medthod.

This week I learned:

This week I learned what a dichotomous key is then used it for the jelly beans.I learned from the data collecting  that the crickets seem to like dry land more than dry.

This is not the type of cricket we are working with in class I think but its the best looking one.