Fishing Trip Data

Period eight Mr. Grindle

Noelle B.
Melissa W.
Emily S.
Bailey G.
Kirk M.
James C.
Problem Statements

How diverse is our pond fish population?

How has biodiversity changed over the
last few years?
What can the hidden pond’s biodiversity
tell us about the pond’s health?
WHAT IS
BIODIVERSITY???
• Biodiversity is the number of
different species in an area.
It is also the variation of life
form within a ecosystem.
Sometime is used to measure
stuff like health and
biological stuff. Since it has
been found there have been
many millions of spices in the
earth. There is 3.5 billion
earth year in evolution.
Why is biodiversity
important in an
ecosystem?
• Source of beauty and recreation
• Provides people with food.
• Supplies materials such as; clothing and medicine.
• Economically valuable
• Helps plants and animals grow.
• Important source of jobs for example some
companies run wild life tours.
Procedure
s
• The pond location was in the woods
behind the middle school.
• I was fishing on the lentic loop there
are two other spots for fishing: the
front, and the pine loop.
Procedures

• We used open
and closed Closed rod

fishing rods.
• We had
clipboards, and
rulers.
Open rod
• The bait we
used was corn,
bread, and lures.
Procedures

• After we caught the fish we would

measure it with the ruler and measure
in centimeters.
• After we measured the fish we would
take the fish off the hook and set it
free.
PIE DATA
num ber of fis h 2009

Bluegills
Bluegills
Pum pkins eed
total num ber of
Crappies
fis h
large m outh bas s
Pum pkins eed total num ber of fis h
large m outh
bas s Crappies
 # of fish caught in (2007)

large mouth
bass, 14

crappie bass, 2

pumpkinseed, 8

bluegill, 48 large mouth bass

pumpkinseed
bluegill
crappie bass
Data graph 2007
to ta l n u m b e r o f
fis h
to ta l n u m b e r o f fis h
c ra p p ie 2
num ber of
p u m p k in s e e d p u m p k in s e e d
fis h
la rg e m o u th la rg e m o u th b a s s
bass b lu e g ill
b lu e g ill

0 20 40 60 80
 Bar graph
fish 2009

num ber of fis h

total num ber of fis h
num ber of fis h large m outh bas s
num ber of
num ber of fis h C rappies
fis h
num ber of fis h Pum pkins eed
num ber of fis h Bluegills

0 10 20 30 40 50
fish Blue- Large Pumpki Crappi
gill mouth n seed e bass
bass
2007 48 14 8 2

2009 28 1 12 0
 Formulas
 D- Value of diversity (answer must be between 0 and 1,where
0is infinite diversity, and I is the least diversity an ecosystem
can possibly be (i.e. only one species present)
 N- Total number of organisms of a particular species.
 N- Total number of organisms of all species.
 2007 2009
 Bluegill- D=(n/N)2 D=(48/72)2 D=0.44 D=0.54
 Pumpkinseed- D=0.00075 D=0.054
 Crappie Bass- D=0.00075 D=None
 Large Mouth Bass- D=0.036 D=0.00006