Fork+Bird+Reflection

Data Analysis - Answer the following questions.
 * 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?

Over time, all of the fork birds changed population/ amount, from generation to generation. The 1- tined fork bird always had the least amount of population. However, the population always grew; from generation 1, it had a population of nothing, in generation 5, it had a population of 11 and in generation 10, it had a population of 18. Specifically for the 1-tined fork bird it had an increasing population. The 2- tined fork bird had a population of 95 for its first generation, the only fork bird alive at the time. Then decreased to 57 in generation 5 and in generation 10, the population decreased even more to 34. This species of 2-tined fork birds decreased from generation to generation. The final species of the fork bird increased because of the amount of tines it had, that helped it stay alive longer. In generation 1, it had a population of nothing and grew to a population of 28 by generation 5, and by generation 10 it reached up to a population of 46 4-tined fork birds.

The most successful fork bird through out the 10 generations was the 4-tined fork bird. This species of fork bird was the most successful because it has the largest population, which is always the goal of any living species (to grow/ increase in their population). The least/ the second most successful fork bird was the 1-tined fork bird because this species of fork birds also increased, but not has drastically has the 4-tined fork bird.

Natural Selectional is when you have a variety of natural things, or things that came from nature. The more of a variety of things that you have, the easier it would be for you to survive and provide for you family and the future generations. Which is why the 4-tined fork bird had the largest population and that helps it provide for its family/ species and create other 4- tined fork birds/ help their population grow. (The more tines the fork birds have, the more of a population it will have because they use their tines to help them eat and survive.)

I think that there may be less fork birds because of their major source of food changing. The younger generations of the fork birds might get used to, and can survive on the new source of food because they are able/ can still adapt to new things like foods. But, for the older generations, they can't, or may not be able to survive and live on the new, different food(s). The fork birds might even change their appearance because of them eating a different mayor source of food. The fork birds might change either their color (in their eyes, on their skin, etc.), their size, their language, and others.

This explains why cheetahs are on the verge of becoming extinct because it says that they have very little of a variation. Because they have very little variation that means that there aren't many different types of species left. If those species can't survive and reproduce, then they would become extinct and disapear from earth forever.