Digital Ecology: Complete the in-class experience by visiting and completing

all of the computer stations: All your info should be in blue.

Last Name: Gyasi

First Name: Tiffany
Class: CP Biology
Period: 6

Procedure Start at a pre-selected station. You will have three minutes to do each station
(do this after you complete and then answer the questions below.
the experiment – explain what
you did)

Data: Find the density of each of the pieces of evidence.

(Use the book to guide your
investigation of this chemical activity) For this section complete a summary of each station as you finish it.

Station 1: In this station it illustrates the global vegetation

through the months of the year.
Station 2: This station illustrates the complex feeding
relationships and energy flow within even beyond
the ecosystem
Station 3: This station illustrate how different types of animals
in a Mojave desert found an ecological niche that
allow them to survive, stay healthy and reproduce in
their ecosystem
Station 4: This station explains how a limiting factor keeps a
population size down
Station 5: This station explain when water is mixed, it brings
vital nutrients up from the bottom of the lake and
oxygen down from the upper layer of the lake.
Depending on the water temperature, water density,
and wind in each season of the year.
Station 6: This station illustrates species in an marine
ecosystem how they adapt in the area in the ocean
in where they live.
Station 7: This station illustrate the change in U.S county
population from 1790 to 1990
Station 8: This station illustrate how a single human can
produce change dramatically effecting the entire
ecosystem
Analysis:
(All answers should be in full
sentences and all numbers should
have units)
Station 1: 1. Note that the green areas run in cycles. Describe how the
Global green areas cycle and in what areas they cycle the most.
Vegetation On certain months like the early summer to the late summer
vegetation seem to appear more than in the mid fall to late
winter. Vegetation tend to cycle the most in South America
2. What areas of the globe are not green now where they used
to be?
Greenland and Africa are not green where they used to be.
3. What is causing these cyclical changes in green?
The time of the year is causing these cyclical changes in green
Station 2: 1. What do the arrows mean on the chart?
Build a food The arrows show the energy flow within and even beyond an
web ecosystem.
2. Who would be affected if the caterpillar were to disappear?
The Black bird would be affected if the caterpillar were to
disappear
3. Who would be affected if the heron were to disappear?
None of the animals would be affected if the heron were to
disappear there would just be more prey
Station 3: 1. When did it seem that most of the animals were keen on
Survive for a getting food in this desert biome?
day? The animals tend to hunt for food during the night time
2. How have these animals' behavior adapted to their
environment? What behaviors are sort of opposite what's
normal and would be considered a behavior that is special
because this is the desert?
These animals adapted to their environment by doing what is
safe to get food and shelter from predators.
Station 4: 1. During what change were all the animals in this system
Limiting affected equally?
factors An introduced species effected the animals equally
2. During what change did the amount of acorns not change
but everything else did?
The disease changed everything except for the acorn
3. If the foxes vanish... how does the squirrel population react?
There will be a lot more squirrels and the squirrels will be
competing for food
Station 5: 1. What does mixing mean?
Lake When water mix periodically. It brings vital nutrients up from the
turnover bottom of the lake and oxygen down form the upper layer of the
lake
2. During what seasons is the mixing the greatest?
In the spring and autumn is when mixing is the greatest
3. Why is mixing greatest during these seasons?
In the spring the sinking water pushes nutrients-rich water from
the top the warmer sinks bringing oxygen with it. Surface water
that is warmed by the sun is denser than the slightly cooler
water below it. Vice versa in autumn
Station 6: 1. Some of the animals had some REALLY funky appearances.
Marine Where do the all live?
ecosystems The abyssal zone is where the animals have funky looking
appearances
 2. Air breathing animals live in which section?
Air-breathing organism live in the intertidal zone
3. Animals that don't need light would live in which section?
Animals that don’t need light will live in the abyssal zone
Station 7: 1. Have the largest centers for population changed dramatically
Population in over the last 200 years?
the US Yes, more people tend to live there through the years
2. What do you think the environmental impact of more people
living in America's heartland... where we make all of America's
food?
The environmental impact of more people living in Americas
heartland would be not a lot of food .
3. What major population centers are new with in the last 100
years?
New York
Station 8: 1. Select the seaweed and then choose development. How are
Human the other species affected by human building?
change The kelp disappears due to build up of sediment from coastal
development. The sea urchins that feed on kelp will move to a
different location or die. The fish that use the kelp forest to
spawn will also leave the area. Finally, the otters that use the
kelp and feed on the urchins will also leave to find food or die
as well.

2. Press the otter. Then press hunting. How does the

ecosystem respond when the otters are hunted out of the area?
When the otters are hunted out of the area the local sea urchin
population booms. The sea urchins degrade the kelp forest.
Fewer fish are found in the area once the kelp bed is degraded
because fish use the kelp forest to spawn.