2nd Field Study Journal Entry

Date and Time: Monday September 12, 2013 at 4:20
Conditions: Sunny, somewhat cloudy, warm
Temperature: 70 degrees
Length of Day: 12 hours and 27 minutes
Observations: after a long day at school I went outside to find out that it was a perfect day outside. It was sunny with a few of those big puffy clouds and several birds out singing and squirrels roaming around. Inside the woods it was very still and hadn't changed a bit from last time.

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Question: What temperature does the vegetation decrease most?

Background Information: 
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/weather/tempeffect-plants.html

Hypothesis: If I continue to take data of the amount of green vegetation until winter, then the amount of vegetation will decrease because the lower temperature and less amount of daylight causes less/slower photosynthesis which leads to slower growth of the vegetation.

Materials 
- camera
- vegetation 
- laptop
- adobe photoshop 
-bright colored string

Controlled Variables:
 - same camera
 - same location of pictures
 - same person taking the pictures
 - same angle of picture taken
 - same vegetation

  

Procedure: 
Step 1: Go out into a highly vegetated area (not only grass) and bring bright colored string. 

Step 2: Find three different areas in which you can take a picture. 

Step 3: Mark each area by tying a bright colored string to the place in which you will be standing to take the picture. 

Step 4: Take a picture of each area. 

Step 5: Save the photos to your laptop. 

Step 6: Put the photos into Adobe Photoshop and create a grid on top of them by going to View<Grid<Show. 

Step 7: Annualize the photo to see what percentage of the photo has vegetation in it by seeing how many squares have green in them. 
Step 8: Continue steps 1-7 with all three photos. 

TABLE - click here to view my table

1st Field Study Entry

Date and Time: Monday September 9, 2013 at 4:15

Conditions: hot, sunny, and had few clouds

Temperature: 82 degrees

Length of Day: 12 hours and 47 minutes

Observations: While forcing myself out the door and into the very humid and hot conditions, I quickly realized how 

content the animals were with it. The birds were chirping, and I saw several squirrels and chipmunks scurrying 

around the woods. As I got deeper into the woods, I arrived at my field study location. It was very quiet except for

the light sound of a creek flowing. There were many bugs, lots of green vegetation, and a slight breeze.

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