Fork+Birds

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 * 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?

1. The thing that happened to each type of Fork Bird over time was that the 2-tined bird decreased because many of the 2-tined specie die because they didn't have enough food. Then the 2 people that had any specie that ate the most rolled a dice and 4 out of 6 times we would stay as 2-tined bird and 2 out of 6 times it changed. The 2 other type of birds increased because the 2-tined birds were dieing. Then we rolled the dice and they change 2 out of 6 times.

2. The fork bird that was most successful was the 4-tined fork bird. Its was the most successful because it almost doubled its population from zero to twenty-eight to forty-six. It's population grew most rapidly. Also if you look at the line graph you can see that 4-tined grew the fastest.

3.Natural Selection means how something is chosen normally. It also means how a living thing adapts to it traits depending on the environment. For example when I got the most food at my table i got to roll a die and give person another fork bird because their bird died because it didn't have enough food. Their bird had to adapt to its environment with its new trait.

4. Since blueberries are now the fork birds food i think that the 2-tined and the 4-tined fork birds will survive. I think that those birds will survive because blueberries are very slippery and soft so the 1-tined birds wouldn't be able to get as much food as the other birds. Also maybe a new type of fork bird will be born. The new fork bird will be 3-tined and 3-tined is easier than the 2 other birds because i can grab blueberries better.

5. This helps explain why cheetahs are on the verge of becoming extinct because little variation means small difference. So the cheetahs have very little differences with each cheetahs traits. New types of cheetahs with better traits are being created so it could be harder to get there food. Also hunters probably kill the cheetahs food and take it so the cheetahs have less food and they will end up all dead.