Due Monday Nov 19th (Green, Red); Tuesday Nov 20th (Blue)

Field Site #12

Name                                                                                       Date Due

GREEN  BLUE

                                                Field Site # 12

A Dirty Earth

 

Color Changes %:  0  10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Remember:  Weather Data Chart

ALIEN DIARY ENTRY:

On separate paper, write a one paragraph description of Dirt!!!  Describe its feel, its smell, its color, its _______……maybe you have some other sense that Earthlings do not.  Also, tell-where is it found and how it compares to similar materials on your home world.

This week’s Arthropod is the isopod; information will be collected in class.

 

SOIL SAMPLING

 

PROCEDURES

1) From different areas in your field site, obtain two different soil samples.  Each sample should be approximately 2.5 cups

§        Pick two sites that appear to be quite different – for example, one sample from a grassy area and another from under a rock or rotting log.

 

2) Spill a few tablespoons out on a paper towel.  With a toothpick or fork, pick each sample apart.  Identify as many materials in it as you can.  List them on the chart on the back.  Draw unknown materials and label them.

 

3) Put ONE sample into a sandwich bag.  Label the bag and bring to school.

§        Be sure that you have from 2 – 3 cups of soil in this sample.

 The other sample you may return to your field site.

 

 

4) Please do NOT include animal excrement or large dead animals (i.e. mice, etc.) with your soil. 

 

5) Use the information from the two samples to write a Recipe for Soil below.  Assume that you have to try and have your home planet scientists reproduce Earth soil.  They will work from your Recipe. 

 

 

 

SOIL SAMPLE #1 was collected from (describe the site)_________________________

 

SOIL SAMPLE #2 was collected (describe the site) _________________________

 

MATERIALS FOUND IN SAMPLE #1

 

                                                                                                                                               

 

                                                                                                                                               

 

                                                                                                                                               

 

MATERIALS FOUND IN SAMPLE #2

 

                                                                                                                                               

 

                                                                                                                                               

 

                                                                                                                                               

 

A RECIPE FOR EARTH

 

Material                                 Approximate amount (for example 2 small leaves or

                                                  1/4 cup sand)

 

                                                                                                                                               

 

                                                                                                                                               

 

                                                                                                                                               

 

                                                                                                                                               

 

                                                                                                                                               

 

                                                                                                                                               

 

 

 

This Week’s Arthropod is The Isopod – if you are at the web site, the picture will not be available.  Draw one from your memory of class work…or go to the web for one.

 

Habitat:

 

 

Life Cycle:

 

 

Diet:

 

 

Popular Names and other Misc. information: