Battling+Beaks

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=Data Analysis: =
 * 1) Describe what happened to each type of fork bird over time.
 * 2) Which fork bird was the most successful? Use your data to support your answer.
 * 3) Battling Beaks simulates the idea of NATURAL SELECTION. Based on what you did in class, your data and questions 1 and 2, what do you suppose natural selection?
 * 4) As a result of heavy rains, the major food source for fork birds is now blueberries. After many generations, how many types of fork birds do you think there will be? What will the fork birds look like? Explain your answer.
 * 5) The cheetah, an extremely fast and efficient hunter, is an endangered species. The few cheetahs alive today show very little variation. How does this help to explain why cheetahs are on the verge of becoming extinct?

=ANSWERS: =
 * 1) =====Over time the fork-birds increased and decreased in my data. In the graph it shows how the amount of fork-birds changed in the generations, for example, in generation one the 1-tined fork birds and 2-tined fork bird are both at zero while the 2-tined fork bird is at the highest around a 95. Another example is in generation five the 1-tined fork bird is around 10 and a 2-tined fork bird is around a a 55 and a 4-tined fork bird is around a 30. A third example is that in generation ten the 2-tined fork bird is around a 35 and a 1-tined fork bird is around a 18 and a 4-tined fork bird is around a 50. These are examples shown in my graph and it shows how the amount of fork-birds changed in the generations. =====
 * 2) The 4-tined fork-bird is the most successful fork-bird because it is increasing the fastest and it will continue to increase in the future. While the 1-tined fork bird is increasing slower, and the 2-tined fork-bird is decreasing. Therefore, the 4-tined fork-bird is the most successful; this is shown in my data/chart.
 * 3) I think a natural selection is a selection that happens naturally, and something you have no control over like adaption. For example I think the natural selection the my graph, is how the 4 fork bird have to adapt to how much things they have on them. In addition, in our progect the fork birds had to adapt to there surroundings which were the tray and the cereal. However, it we moved them to a tray with milk they would have to evolve into spoons or something like that.
 * 4) I think they would evolve but they would also probably get sick of all the blueberries and end up dying. Which would soon end there generation.
 * 5) Probably because of the people hunting cheetahs and more importantly the fact that they don't mateing much or like having offsprings so, they're not making any more of there kind. Therefore, that I think is why they're endangered.