SIZING UP RESERVES

1. How big were the forests in this study? ____________, ____________, and _____________
   
2. Graph 1. How did they catch birds? ____________
   
3. Graph 1. When did they catch the most birds in the 2.5 acre forest? ____________
   
4. Graph 1. When did they catch the most birds in the 25 acre forest? ____________
   
5. Graph 1. Were there more birds at the beginning or at the end of the study? ____________
   
6. Graph 2. Before the forests were cut down how many different kinds (species) of butterflies

                  were in the 2.5 acre forest? __________ In the 25 acre forest? __________

7. Graph 2. What happened to the number of species of butterflies in both forests at the end of the

   study? __________________

8. Can you think of any reason why the number of butterflies went down after the forests were cut?

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9. Table 1. How many kinds of monkeys can a continuous forest support? _____
   
10. Table 1. What was the only monkey in the 25 acre forest? ___________
    
11. Table 1. How many mammals were found in the 25 acre forest? ________
    
12. Table 1. What is the only mammal found in the 2.5 acre forest? _____________
    
13. Which forests are hotter, the 2.5 and 25 acre forests or the continuous forest? ____________
    
14. Table 2. Did more trees die in the 2.5 and 25 acre forests or the continuous forests? __________
    
15. Graph 2. WHY did the number of butterflies increase from 2 weeks to 2 years?

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16. After 3 years, no barred leaf tree frogs were found within the 2.5 and 25 acre forests. Read

• Barred leaf frogs lay their eggs in puddles.

• Peccaries are piglike mammals that live in herds. These herds need 1000’s of acres of uncut forest in order to find all the food they need to survive.

• When the peccaries wallow in the mud they create small puddles.