Sow Bug Experiment

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Conclusion The hypothesis was, if there's more water in a specific area, then the sow bugs will go the area with more water. In the experiment, the results closely followed out hypothesis. The was an outlier of 15mL, but the sow bugs still followed the main pattern. If you look at the graph of the results, it shows increasing data, the more water on a paper towel, the more sow bugs would go on that paper towel. The standard deviation values were low, within a range of 0-2, showing that the data was similar to each other. In the experiment, there was very high chance of error in dealing with the water amounts in the choice chamber. The paper towels can only obtain so much water and be able to keep it in over a period of time, so as the water

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