CHW1 Experimental Inquiry What Can You Learn About the

Last updated: 1/13/2023

CHW1 Experimental Inquiry What Can You Learn About the Process of Science from Investigating a Cricket s Chirp Part B Graphing experimental data There are many reports that the number of chirps per minute that a cricket produces is correlated with the ambient temperature Your class decides to test this hypothesis by collecting several males from two species of crickets the snowy tree cricket Oecanthus fulton and the common field cricket Gryllus pennsylvanicus In the laboratory you measure the chirp rate of each cricket at four different temperatures The data are shown in the table below Temperature 9 15 20 25 30 Average chirp rate chirps per minute Snowy tree cricket 8 108 117 128 Common field cricket 73 82 90 100 15 of 16 Plot the data for the two species of crickets one graph for the snowy tree cricket and a separate graph for the common field cricket To plot the data for each species click Add Element and then select the appropriate graph label View Available Hint s O