Inclined Surface vs. Flat Surface
Goal: For this expeiment we wanted to discover if an incline influenced their ability to maneuver.
Materials: Aluminum plate
Hypothesis: We had thought that an incline surface would make it more difficult for the mealworm and beatle to get around. We hypothesized that they would still be able to crawl on an inclined surface, although it would take them longer and they would struggle.
Procedure: For this experiment we had placed a meal worm and a beatle on a flat tin plate and covered the plate from some of the light for one minute to observe their behaviour.
For the inclined surface we had placed 2 meal worms on the inclined plate and shaded it from the light for one minute to observe their behaviour.
Observations: For this experiment the meal worm had difficulty crawling on the surface, and could not crawl a great distance at all. The beatle did not struggle at walking on the inclined surface at all. Once we had discovered the beetle was not stuggling with the inclined surface we elevated the surface until it was at a vertical incline and it continued to crawl with no difficulty.
Results: The mealworm was unable to crawl up the inclined surface but the beetle was able to.
Independent Variables: Rate of incline, type of plate used
Dependent variables: Reaction of mealworms