Kingdom  

Animalia-

(means its an animal)

Phylum 

Chordata (means it has a backbone)

Class 

Mammalia- (warm blooded)

Order 

Rodentia- (Small gnawing animals)

Family 

Muridae- ( Dont have cheek pouches)

Genus 

Rattus- ( house rat)

Species-
Feliceus-(

marked by happiness or good fortune)

Cricket Investigation

Question: Do crickets prefer wet or dry environment?

Hypothesis: If I make one side of the crickets cage wet and the other side dry then the crickets would rather prefer the dry side because they dont like wet environment.

Backround Reasearch: Inorder for a cricket to survive it needs warmth, food, water, and a good place to lay its eggs. Most crickets are omnivores. They eat nutrient rich food, dry corn,and tropical fish. They also eat decaying plant matter, fungi and small plants. The water is suppose to be changed. 

Digital illustration:

Data Table ( Picture):

 What I did was I  put napkins inside the cage and wet half of the napkins and left the other half dry to see which side it like more.  Then I watched the cricket as it moved and I drew each step the cricket move. After that I marked where it started and where it ended

"Mini" Conclusion: As I was watching the cricket and drawing each step it made I learned that the cricket rather prefer a dry environment. As you can see my data shows that the cricket rather prefer a dry environment because it shows how many moves it made  in the area it liked. 

This week in science #6.

This week in science we had to make a list of things crickets need in order to survive then we had to make testable questions. For example; Hot or Cold ,Which would a cricket prefer a hot or cold environment? Another thing we did this week was we had to pick a method that would help us record which side  the crickets like more dry or wet and we also given jelly beans and we  had to do a dichotomous key.

We had to create a dichotomous key that looks like the photo above for the Jelly Belly we was given.

This week in science I learned how to use different methods to record wether the crickets like a wet place or a dry place. Another thing I learned this week was how to make two different dichotomous keys and which works out better for me. The two different ways was doing it the flow chart style and the list style. The one that worked out for me more was the flow chart style.

This week in science #5

This week in science we was looking at videos of animal behaviors meaning how they was acting towards someone or something. We had to jot down a couple of ways the animal(s) was acting in the video. This (below) is one video we had watched and had  to write down how the animals was acting or what they did. Another thing we did this week was that we was given a case that had a cricket, an apple, and a piece of crumple paper and we had to watch the cricket and write down its behavior.

This week in science I learned that the behavior of animals are different depending on what kind of animal it is. Something I'm confused about is why do  animals behave differently. As the class was watching different videos I noticed that most the animals were violent. A aha moment I had was when we watched a video of a guy taking pictures of a parrot and after he stopped the parrot climbed onto his back and started smacking the guy with his wings since he only has legs.