ISA

The NEW ISA is going to deal with small invertebrates choosing between different conditions. Answer the following to help gain the infromation you need to prepare yoursleves:

1. What is a choice chamber?
2. What did Lorentz and Pavlov do (use link from 1)?
3. Briefly describe the three parts of a fly's life cycle:
4. What happens when you shine a bright light near maggots? How do they sense the light?
5. What would your dependent variable be for this experiment (bottom of the page)?
6. Read the abstract from this essay. What is the independent variable here?
7. Watch this video. Which habitat did the spider prefer? Did it have an equal opportunity to go into ALL habitats?




8. Look at the diagram below. What control variables were met in this experiment? What was one that wasn't?                        



The experiment was started at A, halfway through at B and finished at C.



9. This link has notes and a method for a similar experiment to what we will do. Why is it important that the room can be blacked out?

10. What choices do the Monkeys on this beach have? Describe what would need to change for this to be a fair test about Monkeys' drink preference: