Cash, Eyan, Javi

when we went out to the prairie we observed many different plants and grasses. A lot of them were in the category of dicots, but we still had many varieties. We researched the plants we found and saw that lots of colorful and not so colorful plants. lots of the grasses were similar to wheat but we still found different varieties.

Free State high school prairie is a tall grass prairie set up by the University of Kansas and Free State high school. It has lots of biodiversity and the plants are lots of different colors. There are different plants in each plot and lots of bugs. Some plots have smaller plants and others have larger plants. Some of the plants were already dead and others were not. Lots of tall grass grows in the prairie, some of which is up to 7 feet tall. And many other smaller plants called forbs grow and bloom at different times of year according to the FSHS prairie website. The prairie provides food for many mammals including deer, bison and rodents. There are many producers that sustain lots of consumers which is why life is able to thrive so much in the prairie.

We chose our question because we were talking about biodiversity and we wanted to test it.We thought the prairie would be a fun place to observe biodiversity.We found that the prairie had many different species of plants.Though they were mostly subspecies of one category of plant.Even though things were dying because its fall we still saw many different colors in the land plots.

We did not really answer our question. We counted that the plot with 2x flowers and grasses had a total of 18 different species. The plots with grasses and flowers had 15 different species. The plots with just grasses had a total of 14 different species. We ran into the issue of the seek app only telling us it was a dicot or monocot. Dicots and monocots are the general group of plants while we needed to find the specific type of plant. This issue probably made our data a little bit off. This also held us from answering our research question.