The Effect of the Amount of Light on Sowbugs After Being Shone on Them for 30 Seconds
Another name for Sowbugs is Porcellio Laevis and these creatures are land living crustaceans, mostly aquatic invertebrates, such as the lobster, crab, and crayfish. They are found in most parts of the world, but are most common throughout North America. Since sowbugs are crustaceans, they breathe through gills. Gills are the primary breathing way for all crustaceans and they must be kept moist (4). In addition, these creatures are flat and oval (1). They have seven legs, jointed appendages, a hard exoskeleton, fused abdominal segments, and two pairs of antennas. Not to mention that sowbugs are approximately 0.50inch and they are brown to a gray color with …show more content…
To gather accurate data place the 28cm x 14.75cm clear, plastic box horizontally on a flat surface and placed the turned off lamp with the 60 watt light bulb 10 cm from right side of the box. Plug in the lamp with the light bulb screwed in, then turn it on and off two times to make sure the lamp worked and to minimize chance of error during the experiment. Then place the graph paper with one centimeter blocks inside the plastic box to be able to see and know exactly how far away the bugs got from the light source. We did this to also minimize the chance of error in the calculation of the distance the sowbugs were from the light source. Make sure to tape the excess parts of the paper to the sides of the box to ensure that the bugs do not crawl under the paper. Next, place the four sowbugs on the right side of the clear, plastic box to get ready to begin the experiment and place the 14 cm cardboard inside the box and close to the vertical, right side of the box to hold back the sowbugs before starting the timer. One of you must turn on the lamp and started the timer, while the other person quickly pulls up the 14 cm cardboard out of the box at the same exact time as the other person starts the timer and turns on the lamp. This way the data collected would be more accurate and this minimized the chance of error. Once the timer stops, quickly …show more content…
We put the sowbugs in a clear, plastic box and then we set our light source, which was a lamp, different distances away from the box. Then, we observed the sowbugs and collected data. We concluded that the sowbugs get farther away from the light as the lamp is closer to them since we can see in the graph from Presentation of Processed Data that when the lamp was 10 centimeters away from the box, the sowbugs got the farthest
Another name for Sowbugs is Porcellio Laevis and these creatures are land living crustaceans, mostly aquatic invertebrates, such as the lobster, crab, and crayfish. They are found in most parts of the world, but are most common throughout North America. Since sowbugs are crustaceans, they breathe through gills. Gills are the primary breathing way for all crustaceans and they must be kept moist (4). In addition, these creatures are flat and oval (1). They have seven legs, jointed appendages, a hard exoskeleton, fused abdominal segments, and two pairs of antennas. Not to mention that sowbugs are approximately 0.50inch and they are brown to a gray color with …show more content…
To gather accurate data place the 28cm x 14.75cm clear, plastic box horizontally on a flat surface and placed the turned off lamp with the 60 watt light bulb 10 cm from right side of the box. Plug in the lamp with the light bulb screwed in, then turn it on and off two times to make sure the lamp worked and to minimize chance of error during the experiment. Then place the graph paper with one centimeter blocks inside the plastic box to be able to see and know exactly how far away the bugs got from the light source. We did this to also minimize the chance of error in the calculation of the distance the sowbugs were from the light source. Make sure to tape the excess parts of the paper to the sides of the box to ensure that the bugs do not crawl under the paper. Next, place the four sowbugs on the right side of the clear, plastic box to get ready to begin the experiment and place the 14 cm cardboard inside the box and close to the vertical, right side of the box to hold back the sowbugs before starting the timer. One of you must turn on the lamp and started the timer, while the other person quickly pulls up the 14 cm cardboard out of the box at the same exact time as the other person starts the timer and turns on the lamp. This way the data collected would be more accurate and this minimized the chance of error. Once the timer stops, quickly …show more content…
We put the sowbugs in a clear, plastic box and then we set our light source, which was a lamp, different distances away from the box. Then, we observed the sowbugs and collected data. We concluded that the sowbugs get farther away from the light as the lamp is closer to them since we can see in the graph from Presentation of Processed Data that when the lamp was 10 centimeters away from the box, the sowbugs got the farthest