Marwah Raja

Variables- Plant location

Control- Leaving the plants as they are

Treatment- Moving the plants or changing soil

Dependent variable: food preference of turtle

independent variable: turtle

control group: water

Change the food to see how the turtle reacts, and if it remains healthy.

Independent variable- Perch placement

Dependent variable- Amount of food eaten

Controlled variable(s)- amount of food provided and placement of the perch

Treatment group- The bird

Kaylee Brommer and Kaili Lewis

Experiment: a group of 30 birds the same species as original will be given an elevated food option and a ground level food option, and it will be recorded how much they eat from each.

Allen, West, Collin

Independent Variable: Perch placement

Dependent Variable: Amount of food eaten

Control: Amount of food and perch placement

Treatment: Bird

Kaili Lewis and Kaylee Brommer

Hypothesis: the turtle is tired of the greens it’s given and wants variation in its diet.

Experiment: line up many types of vegetables in front of the turtle (both ones it’s currently eating and new) and see which vegetables it eats. Control- current diet

Treatment- new vegetables

Independent variable- type of vegetable

Dependent- how much the turtle eats

Describe: Take three shade-loving plants and have different variables for each one - one with no water, one with some water, one with plenty orf water. Continue to keep thekm all in the shade.

variables: soil type, plant type, shade/sunlight

control group: the shade-plants in the scenario

treatment groups: the three other shade-plants we are testing

Kristina & Elli

Experiment: give the turtle different types of fruit reflective of its environment. Maybe try something types of vegetables that haven’t been tried yet.

Independent variable: Location of the food container (side of cage and bottom of cage)

Dependent variable: How much food is left in container

Control: We would use the same bird, same cage, and same feed

Treatment group: The bird

By Darby Ragsdale, Ella Brett Hitchcock, Meghan Gilson

Experiment:

Control group: bird has food available below and above.

Treatment:

One bird has food available below.

One bird has food available above/on perch.

IV: where food is placed.

DV: amount of food consumed.

CV(s): amount of food provided, cage, environment, etc.

Ethan McNair and Lindsay Pfeffer

Experiment: I would raise both feeders up to the roost for a week and then lower both feeders for the following week. Depending on how much food is eaten from each bowl, it can be determined if the bird prefers the bowls specifically or their location.

Control: Add the same type and amount of food to the bowls each week.

Independent variable: location of bowl

Dependent variable: amount of food eaten

Variables: Independent- location of the food container

Dependent- How much food is eaten

Constant- Type of food, container, duration left out

Experiment: Place food at various levels of the cage and measure how much food is eaten from each one.

Experiment:

Over 4 days, feed the turtle 4 different diets of different types of greens and observe her reactions. Is she not eating, eating too much or too little? Are there any signs of sickness? The control group would be giving her the original diet to make sure her reaction is consistent. The treatment groups would be the different greens.

Independent variable : the type of food

Dependent variable: the turtle’s reaction - whether she eats it or not

Experiment: To test this hypothesis, I would move where my bird's perch is and measure how much food is left at the end of the day. The location of the perch and the container would be the independent variable, and the amount of food remaining would be the dependent variable.

Dependent variable – Wasps, Nest

Control groups – door frame, front yard

Treatment group – Wasps that are affected by pesticides

Experiment – Placing pesticides along doorframe and seeing if this causes the wasps to stop coming back and building their nest.

Hypothesis - If I use pesticide to keep the wasps away from my front door then will the nests stop being built.

Independent: Application of substances

Dependent: Wasp nest building status

How to test: variables are remove nest (true/false), spray poison (true/false) which creates 4 outcomes. the control group is the one you continue removing without spraying poison. your treatment groups are the ones you spray poison on (with or without removing).

Hypothesis:The plants need shade to grow so if we create shade for the plants they flourish.

Experiment: There will be two groups of plants one group will be left alone while the other will be shaded by a tarp.

Independent variable is the shade the plants get

Dependent variable would be the flourishing of the plants

Control group: plants in the normal setting

Treatment group: the plants under the tarp

For our experiment, we will keep half of the plants where they are currently located, and we will move half to a more shades area, for example the north side of the garden. We will have to keep all variables except for the amount of shade the same. Same soil, water, temperature, fertilizer and pesticides.

The control is the plants that are staying where they are now, and the treatment group is the plants that are moving to the north side of the garden.

independent- wasp nest

treatment group- wasps

control group- door frame

hypothesis- if you use wasp killer spray on the nest the wasps can’t come back and build the nest

experiment- spray wasp killer spray on the nest

Experiment: Move the perch to the bottom of the cage next to the bowl there.

Control: One week, leave the perch in the original spot and record result.

Treatment: One week, move perch to the bottom of the cage and record results.

Independent variable: The placement of the bird's perch.

Dependent variable: Which bowl the bird eats from.

If the bird starts to eat from the lower bowl after the perch is moved down, we can infer that he prefers to eat near his perch. We could then do further experiments moving the bowls and perch around.

If the bird continues to eat from the bowl placed high up, we will need to form a new hypothesis.

The turtle became sick.

Experiment:

Would consist of seeing if the turtle would eat other food, reevaluating, and then perusing medical care from there to see if there’s a change.

Variables:

Independent- what the turtle eats

Dependent- how the turtle reacts

Control group- the food

Treatmeant group- the turtle

Experiment: Take a group of plants (A,B) and but group A in an area with lots of sunlight and group B in a area where they did not get much sunlight.

Variables: Independent:Amount of shade. Dependent: growth of plant.Control:Amount of water plants get,type of plant,type of soil the plants are in.

Independent variable: switching the two food containers' height levels

Dependent variable: amount of food after a day

Control group: the past days observations

Treatment group: the bird

We would switch the two containers (high up one to lower level, lower one to higher position). Then we would observe if the bird chooses a certain container or a certain height to eat at. This would help us conclude if he is drawn to a specific container or height level to eat from.

IV: type of spray

DV: driving the wasps away

Control: door frame, knocking the wasp nest down

Treatment groups: 1 spray of repellent, 2 sprays of repellent, 4 sprays of repellent

In our experiment, we would spray the door frame with different amounts of spray in hope that it would keep the wasps from rebuilding their nest.

The way I would test this is to use different types of fertilizers applied in multiple doses to the plants. The control group would be the plants with no fertilizer added, while the treatment groups would be all the groups that fertilizer was added to. The independent variable would be the amount and type of fertilizer added and the dependent would be plant growth.

- Karson Bowman

Dahlia, Prerana

Independent Variable: Placement of perch

Dependent Variable: Amount of food eaten

Control Group: Our control group will be the current placement of the perch, with it being near the top of the cage.

Treatment groups: We will move the perch to be closer to the bottom of the cage in 5 inch increments per group, monitoring the amount of food eaten in each group.

Experiment: We will place the same amount of food in both containers and use the same bird over the course of a few months

Experiment:

Create multiple environments around the house to test. Remove any nests from both the front and back doors around the house at the same time. Next, apply wasp repellent to one of the doors for a few days. After this, look to see if the nests have come back in either location. This will help to determine if the wasps are building these nests due to the conditions underneath to front door, or if there is another environmental factor.

Independent Variable: Condition underneath the front door

Dependent Variable: Wasps nest and their ability to grow

Control Variable: Time of day, locations, time before measuring

Control Group: The original door that the wasps continue to come back to

Treatment Group: The group with the wasp repellent that is being measured

Independent: is the environment

Dependent: is the turtle's appetite

Control Group: the type of leafy greens given

Experiment:

• Test other turtles on the same diet to see if they eat the leaves.

• Independent variable: the food

• Dependent variable: what the turtle eats/acts

• Control variable: water, amount of food, habitat

• Treatment group: the turtle with the abnormal behavior

• Bella, Graci, and Madi

Experiment: Get a group of multiple birds within the same species and offer them the same food in the containers above and below them (control). Take note of which container is being eaten from. Repeat this process, changing the foods in each bowl (independent variable) to ensure each container has a different food. This will test which bowl the birds are eating from (dependent variable) and whether it is because of the position of the bowl, or the food being offered.

Control group- same bird, type of container, same cage, same food independent: location of food

Dependent: how much it ate

Treatment group: location of the food

Experiment: each day you would put the food in a different location for a week, one day would be a control day so the food would remain in the same location , Then changing the location to just the bottom, next to the perch, and alternating days.

Experiment: Everyday for 30 days we would change the perch location from top to bottom and observe where the bird chooses to eat.

Independent variable is the perch location

The dependent variable The bird

Control: The food

Zsaryea, Kaya, Bella

Rahmi, Urwa

Experiment: We propose that you should move one plant in direct sunlight, one plant in direct shade, and one plant that gets a mix of sunlight and shade to compare how well the flourish. The independent variable is the amount of sunlight the plants get. The dependent variable is how much the plants grow. The control group is the plant in the direct shade. The treatment groups are the one in mixed sunlight and the one in direct sunlight.

Place the turtle in a controlled habitat and record its food intake based on the food provided to the turtle on a daily basis.

Independent: food variety

Dependent: amount of food eaten

Control: habitat and water

Design: Put other varieties of tropical plants outside and inside. The independent variable would be their location (inside or outside of greenhouse). The dependent variable would be the amount of pests (specifically caterpillars). The plants outside are the control and the plants placed within the greenhouse are the treatment group.

To test the affect of precipitation on the garden plants, we will have two groups; a control group that receives the typical amount of watering per day and an experimental group that will receive greater amounts of watering per day. Both groups would live in a shaded environment. The control variable would be the shade that both groups would receive, the independent variable is the amount of water given per group, and the dependent variable is the growth of plants after a given period of time.

Experiment: Planting the same species of plant in the shade and also in the sun. Placing plants in different intensities of sun light, ranging from full shade to full sun. Then, looking at the height of each plant to judge which one flourished the best.

Independent Variable: Sunlight

Dependent Variable: Height of the plant

Control group: Plant that’s in the shade, gets the same amount of shade as before

Treatment group: The plants that receives x amount of sunlight.

Experiment:

To test this hypothesis, we would establish two areas; one area that different factors, like temperature, dampness, and odor. The other area, in the same (as much as possible) area, will be left the same as the control group. The variable is the condition of the area under the door frame, and the treatment group would be a place where they are building their home under the door frame. Temperature would be changed with a heater under the porch, dampness could be changed with a humidifier or (less chance of mold) just pouring some water, and odor would be affected by pouring a small amount of gasoline.

Things like weather, environmental temperature, human activity (walking around), and access to the area under the door would need to be kept constant.

Use a different wasp spray against the wasp each day. Dependent variable: persistent of nest against consistent use of wasp spray

Independent variable: the wasp poison

Controlled group: Amount of spray used

Treatment group: the wasp

2)I would move plants to a new area away from sun and see if the plants would then start to grow again.

Variables: The lighting the plants are receiving and how much the plant is growing

Treatment:Moving the plants to a new area to see if they grow better in a different location than the one they were previously at.

Experiment- grow a Heliconia in a garden, a greenhouse, and a secure indoor location in order to test the amount of caterpillars that infest each one.

Independent Variable - Location Heliconia is grown in

Dependent - amount of caterpillars that infect the Heliconia

Controls - Type of plant, watering schedule, soil, temperature, light

Experiment: We would place a sample of plants outside in the garden and another sample in the greenhouse, and then count the average number of caterpillars present in each sample. The independent variable is the location of the sample. The dependent variable is the number of caterpillars on the plants. Some control variables would be wind levels, water levels, sunlight, and pollinators.

For our independent variable we could treat the soil with different types of nutrients and observe how the plants flourish (dependent variable)

We would keep a control "pot or plant" to make comparisons and see if any of the treatments work on the plant.

We would make sure to keep the water, temperature and light exposure the same for all plants.

Experiment: One day get some type of bug/wasp repellent and apply it to the nest. Proceed to destroy the hive as well. Should be done with a protective suit on as well.

Variables: Wasps

Treatment: Could use that would make the wasps nest cold since they can't live cold

Control: Spray/repellent

Independent Variable: the amount of water given to plants

Dependent variable: the amount of growth of the plant in a certain amount of time

Control Group: we’ll leave some plants the same (no treatment)

Treatment group 1: this group of plants receives more water in a consistent amount of time per day

Treatment group 2: this group of plants receives less water in a consistent amount of time per day

Constant variables: plant type, soil type, location (under the same tree)

To test this, we would move the perch farther down so it would be harder for the bird to collect the food at the top. If he instead decides to switch to the bottom station, it proves our hypothesis that he gathers food from what is closest. If he continues to eat from the top one, we will have to remake the hypothesis. The control group is the bird before we moved his perch. Our variables are the type of food, which is the controlled variable, the height of the perch, which is the independent variable, and the amount of food eaten is the dependent variable.

Experiment: I would move the perch to different areas and heights of the the cage and watch how much food he eats from his containers to see if the perch is a contributing factors.

The independent variable would be perch location, the dependent variable would be how much food he eats in each container. The control would be the amount of food in the containers, the type of food, the cage. The treatment group would be the perch at the highest point of the cage. we know he has previously preferred to eat here, so we will keep that, but add one or more perches to place beside the other food containers.

(Clementine)

IV: perch location

DV: amount of food eaten

Control Variable: amount of food placed

Control: food placed in the middle of the cage to gage how much is eaten at that height

Treatment: food placed higher and lower on the cage

To design the experiment, we would begin to slowly introduce the turtle to different foods and diets that are not green leafs, like fruits.

The independent variable is the diet type and the dependent variable is the turtle's food intake.

The control variable would be the environment the turtles are in and how the turtles receive their food

The control group will be the other turtles in the zoo that do not get the change of diet.

The treatment group will be another select group of turtles in the zoo that do receive the differentiated diet from the green leaves.

Indep. Variable: Climate

Dep. Variable: Pests

Control: the plants kept in the same setting as before

Gianna Jones

Experiment: Fill each container up each day and test to see how much food is eaten out of each after 24 hours. Then move his perch to the one at the bottom to see if it will eat more from that one

Independent variable: Where the perch is located.

Dependent variable: How much food is consumed

Control group: The amount of food that is given, where the food is located, time of day

Treatment group: The bird itself

experiment- we would design an experiment by having propagating 2 new plants off of the original plant and placing one in part shade/sun and one in full sun. the original plant would act as a controlled while the shade/light plant cuttings would be independent variable as well as the amount of sun we chose to give the plant and the dependent variable would be the growth of the plant.

Ava, Savannah

Experiment- To tests whether or not the spot is shady enough, put one of the plants in a sunny spot, leave another in the spot they are currently struggling in, and then put one in a shadier spot.

Control Group- The plant left in the same spot they were originally

Treatment Group- Plants put in the sunny spot and the shadier spot

Independent Variable- Amount of shade provided

Dependent Variable- How the plant reacts/how much it grows

Constant Variable- amount of care given, how much it is watered, the type of plant, amount of time in the spots

Ava & Savannah

Dependent: Wasp

Control: No spray

Treatment: Spraying a pesticide in the area.

Experiment: Spraying the area to see if they come.

Hypothesis: If we spray the area where the wasp nest was, the wasp will not come back.

Sarah, Haley, Emelie

Sophie Meekins and Rachel Young

Experiment: Move the perch to different levels of height in the cage to test if the bird will move with the perch or if it still prefers to eat at a high elevation despite the perch.

Independent variable: The height of the perch.

Dependent variable: The height at which the bird is willing to or prefers to eat its food.

Controlled variable: The food will stay the same, the same bird, the cage, the perch, and the food container.

Experiment: Set up multiple food containers at different elevations. Replace the food every day and record how much is eaten each day.

Independent: Elevation of food container.

Dependent: How much is eaten.

Control: Food must be the same, same amount in each container, food is replaced at same time, same bird, same type/size of container.

2.Independent variable: the door frame

Dependent variable:number of wasps

Control Group:Just outright removing it/no products used

Treatment Group: Poisoned group

Observe and count the number and cluster of wasps that return after simply removing them and not changing the previous method. Then take a different day and spray down the colony with wasp spray. Count the number that return the next day.

Isabel V.P

Experiment: the control group would be a group of birds in the wild, whereas the treatment group would be the birds kept in a cage. You could then analyze where the different groups of birds get their food. This would then show if birds get their food based on habitat.

Independent variable: habitat

Dependent variable: where the bird gets its food

Experiment: Have two Heliconia sp. plants of the same baseline and put one inside the enclosed environment (greenhouse) and put one outside. 

Variables: 

IV: Environment (Greenhouse vs. outside)

DV: Amount of caterpillars found on the plants

C: The same baseline, nutrients given (amount of water, fertilizer, sunlight, etc), amount of time observed, and time planted. 

Control Group: Heliconia sp. plants grown solely outside 

Treatment Group: Heliconia sp. plants grown in enclosed environments (greenhouse) 

Design experiment: In the morning during feeding time, we give the turtle just vegetables and see if he eats at all. During lunch feeding time, we add the insects to the mix of vegetables and see how often he eats.

IV: The number of insects with the vegetables

DV: How much the turtle eats of each serving

Control: No insects, Treatment: receives insects

Experiment: plant the shade-loving plants at the same time. Plant one group in the usual location of the shade-loving plants as a control group, and plant other groups in areas that recieve different hours of sunlight in a day, ranging from shady to half-shaded to direct sunlight. The independent variable will be the amount of sunlight received each day, and the dependent variable will be the growth of the plants by the end of their natural growth cycle. Some controlled variables to ensure are the same throughout each group are the amount of water given to plants, exposure to pests, soil quality, presence of fertilizers and other such variables.

Aiden Davis

Experiment:

We would put the plants into different temperature rooms.

We would also water each plant differently.

Track the amount of growth over the summer season.

Dependent Variable: Growth

Control: Same species of plant, same soil, same pot, same amount of shade.

Independent Variable: Temp and Precipitation

Experiment: Plant the genus Heliconia both outside (in botanical garden) and inside (the greenhouse), and compare to see how much the invaded species has affected each. To measure how much the genus Heliconia has been invaded we can count the average number of caterpillars on each plant. The independent variable is the location, botanical garden and greenhouse. The dependent variable would be the number caterpillars on the plant and the controlled variable would be wind levels, water levels, sunlight, and pollinators.

Experiment: Move the food bowls and perch to different areas in his cage and see which one he chooses to eat from.

Independent Variable: Where his food bowls and perch are.

Dependent Variable: Which bowl he eats from.

Controlled Variable(s): What type of food he eats and when he’s fed.

Kyle

Experiment -> Put birds in the cage, and put two food containers - one with perch and one with nothing. Type of prey and amount of prey should be same.

Independent variable : feeder location

Dependent variable : amount of food has been eaten

Controlled variable : amount of prey provided.

Treatment group : Birds

Dependent: Number of caterpillars

Control: Amount of water, type of soil, temperature

Hypothesis: There will be no caterpillars on the Heliconia sp. Tropical plants in the greenhouse compared to the plants in the botanical garden because they are sheltered.

Experiment: Place 3 of the Heliconia plants in different environments. 1 in the botanical garden, one in the greenhouse, and the last one untouched as a control group.

Experiment: We would design an experiment in which the control group would be at the same temperature as their typical building spot and the treatment group would be building somewhere at a warmer temperature. If the experimental group builds a nest in their warmer temperature then we know that our hypothesis is supported by our data.

Dependent: One new fruit or vegetable, along with one green leaf each day.

Controlled group: Given a turtle one green leaf each day

Treatment: Every other day, she will be given one new fruit or one vegetable but still keep the turtle one green leaf each day

In order to identify the issue with the shaded plants, I will set up several different variables. First, take cuttings from the plants and propagate them(or move the entire plants). Place plants in different kinds of soil, (different brands, levels of fertilizer, more organic matter etc.) and record their growths daily or weekly. Keep each plant in the same amount of sunlight that they had been in, and water each the same amount. Remember to leave one plant where it was originally to compare. Independent: Soil type

Dependent: plant growth/behavior.

Controlled variables: water, sunlight, plant type

Alternatively, swap the soil type variable with a watering variable to test if that is the issue. Change amount and frequency of watering.

Experiment: previously, we would tear down the nest daily, and it would just be rebuilt. Now using two different pesticides, it turns the nest at the front porch unlivable for the wasps only doing it once or twice rather than daily.

Dependent- the nest

Independent- the types of spray used

Control group- the front porch

Treatment group- wasps sprayed

Experiment: Give her a bowl of leafy green, fruits, and then a mixture of the two and see what the turtle eats the most of. Feed another female turtle of the same species only a leafy green diet.

Independent Variable: The turtles diet

Dependent Variable: How much the turtle eats

Controlled Variable: environment, size of bowl, size of portion

Treatment Group: the turtle kept at the Asheboro Zoo

Control Group: a female turtle of the same species that only gets a leafy green diet

Linsey Peterson, Rebecca Stancil, Baylee Holland, Olivia Matthews

Experiment: Remove the left half of the door frame, leaving the right half. Observe if the wasps move their nest locations elsewhere or the remaining half of the door frame.

Independent variable: Door frame.

Dependent variable: Number of nests, nest relocation.

Independent variable: The Wasp

Dependent variable: The Smell of the house

Controlled variables: House's typical smell

Treatment Group: Wasp affected by a different smell

is that there are wasps who build a nest everyday even after it has been destroyed. Hypothesis:

is to use a chemical that will refrain the wasps from building their nest again so they won't come back.

experiment:

consists of using the chemical in different amounts to see how the wasps react. Once we have gathered all the data on how much chemical we need to eliminate the recurring wasp nest, we can conclude the amount necessary that it takes to eliminate the wasp nest.

Variable:

the chemical is the independent

the wasps are the dependent variable

Control: environment/same chemical

            Our experiment would be to place those caterpillars in the greenhouse with the tropical plant to see if they can survive or eat the plant. If the caterpillar does survive, we will know our hypothesis was incorrect. Our independent variable is the climate in the greenhouse as well as the time the caterpillars are kept in the greenhouse while our dependent variable is the survival rate of the caterpillars. Our control group is going to be a group of caterpillars that stay outside of the greenhouse with the plant, while our treatment group will be the group inside the greenhouse.

For my experiment I would place the one heliconia within the greenhouse and one outside of the greenhouse within a close proximity to see if the greenhouse is the thing keeping the plants safe

Dependant variable:safety of Heliconia

independent variable:location of the plants

Control group:Heliconia inside greenhouse

Treatment group:Heliconia outside of greenhouse

We would design our experiment by testing different bug sprays and repellents after removing the wasp nest. The independent variable is the amount of cleaning or repellent product used to remove the wasps. The dependent variable would be the amount of time it takes for the wasp colony to return or if they even return at all. The control variables are the amount of repellent used, the method of wasp nest removal, and weather conditions.

The control group would be what would happen if you just remove the wasp nest without any repellent. Then, the treatment group would be the group where you remove the wasp nest and then thoroughly clean and use repellent on.

Variables

IV: The amount of spray I use

DV: nests, amount of wasps

control variable: spray, environment, time of day to spray and measure wasps, same conditions

Control group: past attempts to remove the wasps,

Experiment: Gradually increase the use of spray and measure the number of wasps there.

Independent Variable - The type of soil used

Dependent Variable - Amount of growth

-Thompson White

Experiment Design: Have two bowls, one being leafy greens and the other being different fruits and vegetables and see which one the turtle gravitates to and eats more of.

Independent: The type of food

Dependent: How much the turtle eats

Control group: portion sizes

The variables:

Control variable: same plants used throughout, same soil and amount of watering

Control group : the plants in the amount of light that was regularly being grown before hand

Independent: is the amount of sunlight that each group is exposed to

Dependent: is the amount that each group will grow over a certain timeframe

The bird prefers the top feeder over the bottom feeder because of feeder height.

Experiment Design:

We will remove the top feeder to observe whether the bird will eat from the bottom feeder. The independent variable will be the feeder’s height, and the dependent variables will be the amount of food eaten and the number of visits to the feeder. The experiment will be conducted over a two-week period. The type of food, lighting, perch placement, and cage environment will be kept constant throughout the experiment.

Experiment: During the same mealtime, Group 1 with three of the same bird species will have food container away from the perch, while Group 2 of another three birds will have food container near the perch. After mealtime, measure the amount of food left from each group and compare.

Variables

• Independent variable: Location of food container

• Dependent variable: The amount of food eaten

• Control: Same amount of food, type of food, time, and bird species (female/male), habitat.

• Control group: Group 1 Bird

• Treatment group: Group 2 Bird

Experiment: Two containers will be left inside the cage; One which will be elevated and one which will stay at the bottom of the cage. Will then observe which food bowl gets eaten given that both bowls contain the same food and the same amount.

Independent variable: Location of food container

Dependent Variable: how much food is eaten from each container.

Control: the amount of food that is provided to the bird. The type of cage the bird is in.

Treatment group: the bird