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Ecology Trip
On Tuesday November 7th,
TY 2 went to Wicklow on an ecology trip. We were taken into a
woodland area to identify plants and animals. The first thing we did
was identify plants using a key, and then we mapped out an area in
the woodland of 10m X 10m which we drew a sketch of, including all
the different trees and plants inside this area. Next we did some
random plant sampling by throwing a quadrant 5 times and noting what
plants were in the area where it landed each time.
After a short break we got
back to work and went from the coniferous part of the forest to the
deciduous part. Here we did some more random sampling using the
quadrant. We found that the results here were very different from
the coniferous woodland even though it was only a couple of metres
away.
When were finished
examining plants we moved onto animals. We caught some beetles,
worms, spiders, and other insects and looked at them more closely.
This was the last thing we had to do on our trip and afterwards we
went back to the bus and came back to Oatlands.(Colm Healy)
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