safety (lab & field), field kits, equipment, field techniques, tracking, organism care, collecting & transporting specimens, reading tests & imagery, microscope analysis, self-analysis

The quiz response below explains some techniques for tracking, specimens and collecting.

Advantages:

Sampling is quicker and more efficient way to measure and make assumptions and guesses on a larger area that you may not have time to completely cover.

It allows for a cheaper and less resource requiring way of performing data collection.

Disadvantages:

It is often limited by resources such as money, time and weather.

it has the potential to skew the results if you happen to choose an area that has a strange or uncommon feature compared to the larger population you are studying.

My Evidence media piece shows equipment, field gear, techniques, collecting, imagery and self analysis.

Evidence Media

The evidence media assignment shows skills in tracking, field techniques, and reading imagery and tests. By marking out a specific, defined area and imaging and recording the data about the organisms inside of it, we can perform analysis on that environment and make assumptions about a greater area surrounding it.

Sample [2:00 PM October 14, 2023]

•There were 3 different organisms in the sample area I observed

•The sample area was about 8 inches by 8 inches

•There was a covering of vine like plants, with smooth leaves and they were in groupings of 4. From the sample, it is hard to tell where the plants were coming from so I can only guess that there was probably around 3 different plants in the area.

•There was also a few smaller plants with jagged, rough leaves. These were in groups of 2-3. These plants seemed to stay distributed in clumps.

•There was a leaf from what I thought was an oak tree, and another dead leaf from another tree.