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Feasting Finches Episode Two: Attack of the Graphs
1.)On yourgraph paper, create a bar graph to represent the CLASSdata that you collected in yesterday’s Feasting Finches activity. Make sure you evenly number along the Y-axis!
2.)a.) Identify the lowest bar on your graph: ______
b.) Why do you think this combination of utensil and food was so difficult to work with?
3.)a.) Identify the tallest bar on your graph: ______
b.) Why do you think this combination of utensil and food was so easy to work with?
4.)a.) Compare your group data to your class data. If any your group’s numbers are more than double, or less than half of the class average, then list those numbers here. Include the utensil and food that goes with each number:
b.) Why do you think your group’s data was so different from the class average in these categories?
5.)If you were a bird with scissorsfor a beak, and all four of our tested food sources were available to you, then what would your feeding strategy be like?
6.)If you were a bird with pliers or tweezers for a beak, and all four of our tested food sources were available to you, then what would your feeding strategy be like?
7.)If you were a bird with a binder clip for a beak, and all four of our tested food sources were available to you, then what would your feeding strategy be like?
8.)If you were a bird with a spoon for a beak, and all four of our tested food sources were available to you, then what would your feeding strategy be like?
9.)a.) Review your answers to numbers 5 through 8. Which birds do you see focusing on the same food source?
b.) Review your answer to 9-a. If the birds that you wrote down had to compete against each other for their shared food source, then which type of bird do you think would be the most likely to survive?
c.) Why did you choose the answer that you wrote for 9-b?
10.)a.) What do you think would happen if all four bird types flew to an island where no birds had been before, and the only food type available was macaroni munchies?
b.) Review your answer for 10-a. Why do you think this would happen?
& Beetles
Scissors & Twigs
Scissors & Worms
Scissors & Munchies
Pliers & Beetles
Pliers & Twigs
Pliers & Worms
Pliers & Munchies
Clip & Beetles
Clip & Twigs
Clip & Worms
Clip & Munchies
Spoon & Beetles
Spoon & Twigs
Spoon & Worms
Spoon & Munchies