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Roadkill in 2005 and 2009

I chose to study how much/what type of  roadkill there will be in a period of the same two weeks in 2005  and 2009. My hypothesis was that there would be more roadkill as the two weeks would go on because it will get warmer so animals will be done hibernating and birds will come back from the south. I think that there will be about the same amount of roadkill in 2005 than in 2009 because it is the exact same time in the year. This might not be correct because maybe there were rabies in an animals’ population or maybe the climate might not have been the same.

I was not very surprised with the results I got with this project. It turned out that almost every animal was killed the same amount of times. The only thing that was a little strange was that there were 3 chipmunks killed in 2005 and none in 2009. Another thing that was strange was that there were 6 grey squirrels killed in 2009 and 1 in 2005.

I expected all of the roadkill amounts would’ve been the same.  I think that the grey squirrel’s population has grown rapidly in the last few years. It might have found humans’ trash outside and it’s eating that instead of acorns and its normal food. I also think that the squirrel is taking the chipmunks’ food because there are more squirrels now than in 2005 and there were no chipmunks in my data, but there were many squirrels.

Next year, I think that there will be more chipmunks and less squirrels because the squirrels will not have enough food and some of them will die. I think that people will also start taking better care of our earth so the roadkill will all be even with every animal. People will start riding their bikes more so there won’t be as much roadkill. I would study the amount of roadkill for one month instead of two weeks so I can really look at the more overall results.

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I chose to study how much/what type of  roadkill there will be in a period of the same two weeks in 2005  and 2009. My hypothesis was that there would be more roadkill as the two weeks would go on because it will get warmer so animals will be done hibernating and birds will come back from the south. I think that there will be about the same amount of roadkill in 2005 than in 2009 because it is the exact same time in the year. This might not be correct because maybe there were rabies in an animals’ population or maybe the climate might not have been the same.

I was not very surprised with the results I got with this project. It turned out that almost every animal was killed the same amount of times. The only thing that was a little strange was that there were 3 chipmunks killed in 2005 and none in 2009. Another thing that was strange was that there were 6 grey squirrels killed in 2009 and 1 in 2005.

I expected all of the roadkill amounts would’ve been the same.  I think that the grey squirrel’s population has grown rapidly in the last few years. It might have found humans’ trash outside and it’s eating that instead of acorns and its normal food. I also think that the squirrel is taking the chipmunks’ food because there are more squirrels now than in 2005 and there were no chipmunks in my data, but there were many squirrels.

Next year, I think that there will be more chipmunks and less squirrels because the squirrels will not have enough food and some of them will die. I think that people will also start taking better care of our earth so the roadkill will all be even with every animal. People will start riding their bikes more so there won’t be as much roadkill. I would study the amount of roadkill for one month instead of two weeks so I can really look at the more overall results.

In this graph, I noticed that there were more roadkill in week 1 than in any other week. I think this is because the animals are done hibernating and are coming out. The second highest week was Week 7. I think this because it is getting warmer and there are insects and flowers for the animals to eat.

This project was very fun because we created our own shoe. My shoe represents me because it shows what I like to do. It is a running shoe because I like to run. We could make any kind of shoe we wanted to and that was fun because we had freedom. Then we made an advertisement for it. It was a very fun project.

My group talked about earth day gardens and what they mean to earth day. It was cool because everyone in the world could hear me. We also talked victory garden which is a garden put in the middle of a military base. I think everyone should make an earth day garden to represent earth day.

In school we read Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman. It was about a community where people all have a reason to plant a plant that is special to them in some way. We had to create seed packets on a person in the book and someone in our life and how they relate to the plant they grown. On the back we had to write the qualities of that person and how they connect to their plant. We had to draw a picture on the front of what that plant/person does. I chose a character in the book named Sam. He liked to get people talking so they could be more of a community. His plant was a pumpkin because the vines on a pumpkin reach out and grab on to the soil and objects. The person in my life was my grandmother and her plant was a carrot. It was a carrot because when she talks about something she goes really deep into that subject and carrots go really deep into the ground. It was a neat project and I would like to do it again.

 Acid rain is caused by pollution. Factories, power plants and cars all release pollution. The pollution floats up into the atmosphere and it goes into clouds. The clouds build up and they rain down the pollution that was in the clouds. That is acid rain.

We can fix acid rain by buying hybrid cars. We can also ride our bikes more to reduce running our cars. We can put scrubbers in our smoke stacks. The scrubbers clean the air of the smoke so not as much pollution is going into the air. Towns with strong rivers can put turbines in the river to create electricity. There are many more ways we can help the environment.