Unit 4 Summative Criterion B and C

MYP Year Date: Tuesday 7

Name: Ghaya Khalid
Level: 4 March 2023
Grade and Section: 9A

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Highest Your
Criteria Name of Criterion:
Level Level
Criterion (B) Inquiring and Designing 8
Processing and
Criterion (C) 8
Evaluating

Subject/Unit Statement of Inquiry Global Context Key Concept

Health and well-being can be

maintained by achieving internal
Homeostasis and balance through the specialized Identities and Health and Well-
Cell Biology functions of interacting systems Relationships Being
within multicellular organisms.

Command Terms Used

Command Term Definition

Use knowledge and understanding in response to a given

Apply situation or real circumstances. Use an idea, equation,

principle, theory or law in relation to a given problem or issue.

Give a detailed account or picture of a situation, event, pattern

Describe
or process.

Explain Give a detailed account including reasons and causes

Interpret Use knowledge and understanding to recognize trends and

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 draw conclusion from given information.

Outline Give a brief account or summary.

Give a specific name, value or other brief answer without

State
explanation or calculation.

Evaluate Make an appraisal by weighing up the strengths and limitations.

Offer a considered and balanced review that includes a range of

Discuss arguments, factors or hypotheses. Opinions or conclusions should

be presented clearly and supported by appropriate evidence

Express precisely and systematically the relevant concept(s) or

Formulate
argument(s)

Present Offer for display, observation, examination or consideration

Background:
Over 2 million years ago the small Grassquit made an epic journey of more than 1000Km
across the seas to the the Galapagos Archipelago, far into the Pacific Ocean.
Grassquits in fact migrated to various different islands at Galapagos. Let’s take a simple
example to illustrate the point. Suppose that we have two separate populations of
Grassquit, each arrive onto different islands. Each island has distinct food sources and
habitat. On one island the birds can feed easily on seeds from abundant plants, while on
the other island cactuses are the common food source.

It is here that the story starts to get more interesting. Natural Selection comes into play. On
the first island, a short, stout beak was beneficial for eating seeds from the ground. So
birds with this beak type were more likely to survive, mate, and pass the short beak trait
onto their chicks. On the second island, a longer pointed beak was more useful to pierce
cactus fruit. Likewise this pointy beak trait meant a higher chance of survival, and was
passing genetically onto their chicks.

Introduction to experiment: How are bird beaks adapted to the foods they eat? In this lab,
we will simulate a scramble competition between one species of birds in three different
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environments. Each bird has a different beak type (tweezerbeak, tongbeak, chopstickbeak,
clipperbeak) and you will find that depending on the food available, some will do better than
others in each environment. No two environments are the same and, in our simulation, each
one has a different primary food source: Here is a video that will give you the idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpNBTPDroWQ

https://www2.nau.edu/lrm22/lessons/bird_lab/bird_lab.html

(Criterion B, strand i.):

Explain a problem or question based on any factor in this simulation to be tested by a scientific
investigation

1. Problem
How can the type of bird beak effect their survival (amount of food they
can eat)?

Hypothesis (Criterion B, strand ii.):

Formulate a testable hypothesis and explain it using scientific reasoning

2. Hypothesis
If the bird has wider beaks then they will be able to collect more rice and
survive

Variables (Criterion B, strand iii.):

explain how to manipulate the variables, and explain how data will be collected

Answer
3. State all variables within your Independent:
hypothesis in question #2 and Type of beaks
explain how your hypothesis is
something testable that will, Dependent:
ultimately, address the problem Amount of rice collected
statement.
Constant:
Rice, type and size or rice, amount of time, the
environment

Results (Criterion C strand i):

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 Present collect and transformed data

Using a table in the Excel sheet (On Class Stream), record the Species (type of beak) and the
number and percentage of the total food items eaten by each type of bird. Take a screenshot of
the tables and the graph when done and paste it below

Analysis (Criterion C strand ii):

Interpret data and explain results using scientific reasoning

3.Analyze your data and
interpret your results.
Support your interpretation
of the data by using real
results from your data
table.
The tweezer collected the least amount of food they only collected 7% of
the food this is likely because the beaks are small, thin, narrow and sharp
so they cant collect a lot of food and their population will most likely
decrease.
The chopsticks collected 12% of the amount of food this is likely because
the beak is long so there is more space to collect food than the tweezers
but its also thin so it cant collects as much food so their population will
also decrease.
The tongs collected 9% of the food, I think this is because the tongs are
narrow and thin so they cant collect a lot of food so normally their
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 population will likely decrease.

The clip collected the most amount of food, it collected 72% of the food
this is likely because the the beak is so wide and there is way more
space to collect the food so this species collected the most food and their
will most likely increase.

Conclusions- validity of hypothesis (Criterion C strand iii.):

Evaluate the validity of a hypothesis based on the scientific outcome of the scientific investigation.

4. State your hypothesis (from I accept my hypothesis, because the clip collected the most
question #2) Was your amount of food. The clip has the widest type of beak so it was able
hypothesis supported or to collect the most amount of food at once.
unsupported by the data
collected and results of this
experiment? Explain in 2-4
sentences.

Evaluation of method (Criterion C strand iv.):

Evaluate the validity of the method

Explain improvements or extensions (Criterion C strand v.):

Explain improvements or extensions to the method.

5. Evaluate how adaptations
affected the amount of
food that the different
birds consumed and how
this had an effect on
survival.
Explain using 4-5
sentences.
6. Discuss one way that this
experiment can be
extended OR improved.
(1-2 sentences)
Adaptation affects the amount of food the different birds consume
because different birds have different types of beaks each are
adapted to the food they eat, for example if the beak is long it can
help the bird get worms from the dirt, and if the beak is wide it can
help the bird collect more amount of food. This effect their survivor
because birds are adapted to live in their environment and to eat
their food so the bird can’t survive in any other environment.
The experiment can be improved by testing the beaks on different
types of food to see which beak is adapted to eat which food, we
can also test more types of beaks and repeat the experiment again
to be sure if the results .