Observations
How many trees did we observe on day 1?
3
Black Oak
Redwood
Red Maple
Why do seasons occur?
The Earth is tilted
The specific word used to describe the perimeter of a circle is called
Circumference
What do the rings of a tree cookie tell us?
The number of years the tree has been alive.
What time is lunch?
12:00
(Noon)
From the animal species we worked with on Monday, which species is most closely related to a whale?
Deer
What are the three zones of the Earth?
Polar, Temperate, and Tropics
What is the mathematical formula for the area of a circle?
pi(r)^2
Why use tree cores to examine trees over tree cookies?
Cutting out a tree core does not kill the tree.
What was your favorite activity, and what was the purpose of it? Be specific.
Answers vary.
Out of Redwoods, Black Oaks, and Red Maples, which two tree species are more closely related?
Red Maples and Black Oaks
Which zone is the hottest, which is the coldest?
Tropics is the hottest
Polar is the coldest
What kind of graph did we use to represent your data?
What is the process where leaves transform sunlight and carbon dioxide into oxygen and food called?
Photosynthesis
What was your favorite tree, and why?
Answers vary.
What trait did all the animal species share?
Skull and Spine
What are the 4 mini-biomes on UC Merced campus?
Desert
Wetlands
Grasslands
Forests
What was the clinometer used for?
To measure the angle from the ground to the top of the tree.
What does the xylem do? And which way does it travel?
Transports water up.
What are our names, and what do we study?
Biviana - Astrophysics, studying space
Janette - Microbiology
Erick - Math
Taxonomy is...
The science of classifying living things.
What is the difference between weather and climate?
Weather measures the temperature day-by-day, climate is the average weather over a long period of time.
What is the ratio we used to find the height of the tree?
Tangent
What conditions produce larger tree rings?
Wet and normal temperatures
Who walked you to lunch today and what does she study?
Emma - Physics