Paper on Invertebrate Locomotion
Directions:
You should have by this time measured the velocity of a common insect. In your observation, you should have also recorded details such as size of organism, pattern of leg movement, etc. Now it is time to sit down to write a paper on your observations. Your paper should be written in regular scientific format. Use your book as your main source of information and cite it in both the introduction and in the discussion/conclusions sections. Some of the questions you should be cosidering will be found on the exercise handout sheet. You should include in your results section a comparison of body sizes and body lengths.
To get that information and information on appendage sizes, I have included clips of various insects in the section marked "Images". When the image appears on your screen, you can save it by right clicking on the image and clicking on the menu item that says "Save image". Svae it to you invert folder on OZ. In attempting to determine pattern of limb movements, you might find the clips in the Movie section helpful. The following link wll take you to a page of speeds recorded in 1996.
The paper should be two to three pages long. Some of the results might best be displayed by graphs, some by tables.
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