You will send in your Backyard Field Trip Report using WebCT. Since you on have only 120 minutes after you open the Backyard Field Trip Report Form to complete your field trip report, we strongly suggest that you prepare your answers before you open the Report Form.
The following information will be needed to complete your Backyard Field Trip Report Form:
Field trip site data:
Field trip date, the time you started your observations, the time you ended your observations, sunrise and sunset of your field trip day, moon rise and moon set on your field trip day, the day's high temperature, the day's low temperature, the day's high barometric pressure and the day's low barometric pressure.
Prepare answers to the following items:
Describe the location of your Backyard Field Trip site.
Describe the weather on the day you observed your Backyard Field Trip site. Be sure to describe any cloud cover.
Describe the soil and any organisms you found in the soil.
What types of plants grow in your study area?
Did you find any fungi in your study area? If so, describe them.
As you approached your study area did any animals (mammals, birds, insects, spiders, etc.) flee the site? If so, name and/or describe them.
Describe any animals that you were able to find on your site. Indicate the location where each animal was found.
What was you most interesting or unusual observation?
Choose one plant and one animal that you observed and describe each of them in detail.
Would you describe your study area as an area of high or low biodiversity ? What is the importance of biodiversity?
Are most of the plants in your study area native or non0native plants? Why are non-native plants found in backyards and parks?
What problems do you think these non-native plants might cause?
Based upon your knowledge of the study area, has this location been influenced by fertilizers, herbicides, and/or pesticides? If so, how might these chemicals influenced the diversity or organisms in your study area?
What did you learn from this experience?
When you have completed the drafts of your answers, use this link to open the BIOL 125 WebCT Backyard Field Trip Report Form