Pillbug Lab Report

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Isopods are one of the crustacean animals in the world. There are more than 10,000 kind of isopods in the world. Some of them live in salt water, some of them sugar water and some live in plain water. Isopods are one of the animals like to stay shadow area like under rock. Fifteen minutes of our experiment, we realized that most of them preferred in the plain water. Moreover, Isopods can walk on the plant debris, soil and wood. Besides that, they can faster on the wood.
For this experiment, my central question was: what kinds of environment will the pillbugs would like to stay. I hypothesized that more pillbugs will prefer in plain water than sugar and salt water .My data approves that number of pillbugs stayed in the plain water

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