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Look at Figure 1 (Change in number of deer in Colorado): What happened to the number of deer from 2005 to 2013?
Look at Figure 1 (Change in number of deer in Colorado): What happened to the number of deer from 2005 to 2013?
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Look at Figure 1 (Change in number of deer in Colorado): What happened to the number of deer from 2005 to 2013?
Which organism, the deer or elk, would be negatively affected by the change in grass type? Explain your answer.
Look at Figure 4: What happened to the number of deer from 2005 to 2013?
Look at Figure 2 (Yearly Rainfall): What year had the highest amount of rainfall?
Look at Figure 2 (Yearly Rainfall): How much did it rain in 2004?
Look at Figure 2 (Yearly Rainfall): What happened to the amount of rainfall from 2004 to 2006?
Look at Figure 2 (Yearly Rainfall): What happened to the amount of rainfall from 2006 to 2010?
What type of grass do deer eat?
What type of grass do Elks eat?
Which grass is an invasive species, not native to Colorado?
What happened to the amount of cheatgrass from 2005 to 2013
What happened to the amount of sagebrush from 2005 to 2013
Look at Figure 4: What happened to the number of elk from 2005 to 2013?
Looking at Figure 5 (Cause of Fawn Deaths): in 2005, what caused the most of the fawn deaths?
Looking at Figure 5 (Cause of Fawn Deaths): From 2008 to 2013, what caused the most of the fawn deaths?
Make a claim to explain what caused the deer population to decrease (food, predators, etc). Use the data provided to provide at least one piece of evidence and a reason.
For instance:
The birds decreased in population because of a decrease in food (Claim).
The birds eat sunflower seeds, but in 2008, the amount of sunflower seeds decreased (Evidence)
Since there was less food, the bird population decreased due to animals starving (Reasoning)