Analyzing and Interpreting Quadrat Study Data

What does your data tell you about the quadrat study you did? Answering these questions will help you analyze and interpret you data.

1. What covers most of your quadrat?

 

2. What covers the least?

 

3. Since this is a lawn, what would you expect to be the most common ground cover?

 

4. Are there any objects in your quadrat that you think DON'T belong in the lawn?

 

5. Which objects were you surprised to find in the quadrat?

 

6. a)What do you predict will happen to the objects in your quadrat if you were to repeat the study next year?

 

b)What about 5 years from now?

 

7. How does what you found in your quadrat compare findings from other groups?

 

8. How was your data a like or different than data from other groups?

 

9. a) What data might you expect to collect in a prairie?

 

b) In a forest or woods?

 

10. What will you do differently the next time you do a quadrat study? Why?