Fork+Birds+Reflection


 * 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?

Answers:
 * 1) Well, for the two tined population was very high on the first generation yet, the survival rate has decreased on the fifth generation. this basically happened because two tined wasn't able to eat so they couldn't reproduce. The four tine fork bird didn't start as strong as the two tined but they managed to survive because they were able to hunt more, eat more and reproduce even more. Lastly, the one tined fork bird was really low in population and in survival and they eventually died out because of very little food.
 * 2) Out of the whole population of fork birds the 4 tined survived because they were able reproduce and they were also able to pass on their genes to the offspring.
 * 3) I think NATURAL SELECTION means is basically the animal traits it has to eat, survive and to make off springs. So the four tined fork bird was able eat and feed their off spring, so they can reproduce. On the other hand the one tined wasn't able to gather as much food as the four tined fork bird, so they ended up dieing of starvation and couldn't pass their traits on to their offspring.
 * 4) In my opinion i would say there wouldn't any change because the fork birds would adapt to the new food and blueberries wouldn't really make a big change.
 * 5) Some small variations would be the weather or climate changes because the cheetahs can't adapt to the weather. Another variation would be the of food poisoning because cheetahs eat what they hunt and kill, most of the time the animals are sick so they are hunted down.