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What is the advantage of random sampling?

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Avoids bias

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How should random sampling be carried out? 2

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  • Divide field into grid with measuring tapes

- Use a random number generator to generate coordinates to put quadrats on

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When should non random sampling be used? 3

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  • When there is a variety of abiotic factors
  • When there is a variety of species distribution
  • To ensure all different areas are sampled
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How is systematic sampling carried out?

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  • Samples are taken at fixed intervals along a line transect
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When is systematic sampling used?

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When abiotic factors change gradually from one end of an area to another - an environmental gradient

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What is a frame quadrat used for?

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Immobile populations

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What is a frame quadrat?

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A square frame divided into a grid of 100 smaller squares by strings attached across the frame

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For larger trees and plants what can be used instead of frame quadrats?

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Large quadrats created with tape measures

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What are point quadrats used to investigate?

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Plant populations when there is dense vegetation close to the ground

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What is a point quadrat?

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A horizontal bar on 2 legs with holes in set intervals along its length

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How are point quadrats used to investigate populations?

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  • Placed on the ground at random points
  • Pins dropped through holes in the frame
  • Every plant touching each pin is recorded
  • Number of individuals in each species recorded in each quadrat
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List abiotic factors that can be investigated

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  • Temperature
  • Humidity
  • Solar input/light intensity
  • Rainfall
  • Oxygen availability in water
  • pH of soil
  • Moisture content of soil
  • Relief
  • Slope angle
  • Aspect
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What is temperature measured with?

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Thermometer

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What is humidity measured with?

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Electronic hygrometer

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What is rainfall measured with?

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  • A rain gauge - a funnel attached to a measuring cylinder

- Measure a volume of water collected over a period of time

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How is soil pH measured? 2

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  • Using indicator liquid

- Electronic pH monitor

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How is oxygen availability measured in aquatic habitats?

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Oxygen sensor

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How is solar input/light intensity measured?

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Light sensor

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What is relief?

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How the height of the land chances across a surface

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How can relief be measured?

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Take height readings using GPS device at different points across surface

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How can slope angle be measured?

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How can aspect be measured?

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What is aspect?

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Direction the land is facing

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What are the 3 types of transect?

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  • Line transect
  • Bell transect
  • Interrupted transect
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How is a line transect used?
- A tape measure is placed from one point to another | - Number of each species that touch the tape measure is recorded
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How is a belt transect used?
- Frame quadrats placed along all transect length
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How is an interrupted transect used?
- Quadrats placed at fixed intervals along transect
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What are the 3 experiments used to investigate the effect of temperature on climate change?
- Seedling growth rate - Brine shrimp hatch rate - Effect of temperature on rate of catalse breaking down hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen
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Explain how to carry out a seedling growth rate experiment. 6
- Plant some seedlings [same variety and age] in soil trays - Measure the height of each seedling - Ensure all other variables are the same - Leave for a period of incubation - Record change in height of each seedling - Calculate average growth rate
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How do you calculate the average growth rate of the seedlings?
Average change in seedling height/incubation period
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Explain how to carry out the brine shrimp hatch rate
- Put equal number of brine shrimp eggs - In water baths set at different temperatures - Ensure all other variables are the same - Record number of hatched brine shrimp in water bath every five hours - Calculate the hatch rate
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How can hatch rate be calculated?
number of hatched brine shrimp in each water bath/number of hours
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What factors need to be kept the same for the seedling growth experiment? 3
- Light intensity - Content of soil - Co2 concentration
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What factors need to be kept the same for the brine shrimp hatch rate experiment? 3
- Oxygen concentration - Volume of water - Salinity of water
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What enzyme breaks down hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen?
Catalase
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Explain how to carry out the experiment measuring the effect of temperature on rate of catalse breaking down hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen - 10
- Set up boiling tubes containing same volume and concentration of hydrogen peroxide - Keep pH constant by adding equal volumes of buffer solution to each tube - Set up an upside down measuring cylinder in a trough of water with a boiling tube connected by a delivery tube - Put each boiling tube in a water bath set to a different temperature - Put another boiling tube in each water bath containing the same concentration of catalase - Wait for five minutes for the enzyme to reach the temperature - Use a pipette to add the same volume of catalase to each boiling tube - Attach bung and delivery tube - Record amount of oxygen produced every 10 seconds in first minute of reaction - Use stopwatch to measure time
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What is the Hill reaction? 3
- In light dependent reaction - NADP acts as an electron acceptor for the hydrolysis of water where oxygen is released - NADP itself is reduced
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What can be added to isolated chloroplasts to investigate rate of Hill reaction?
DCPIP
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Why is DCPIP added to isolated chloroplasts?
It also acts as an electron acceptor and gets reduced but with an observable colour change
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What is the colour change observed with DCPIP when reduced?
Blue to colourless
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Explain how to carry out the DCPIP experiment: stage 1, obtaining chloroplast pellets [9]
- Cut a few leaves into pieces and remove rough stalks - Grind up leaf pieces using pestle and mortar with chilled isolation solution - Filter the liquid into beak through funnel lined with muslin cloth - Transfer liquid to centrifuge tubes - Centrifuge liquid at high speed for 10 minutes - Chloroplasts gather at bottom of tube in pellets - Remove liquid from top of tubes - Resuspend pellets in fresh chilled isolation solution - Store on ice for rest of experiment
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Explain how to carry out DCPIP experiment: stage 2, measuring light absorbance
- Set up a colorimeter with a red filter and zero using cuvette containing chloroplast extract and distilled water - Set up test tube rack at set distance from bench lamp and switch on - Add a set volume of chloroplast extract to tube and set DCPIP volume and mix - Immediately take sample of mixture from tube and add to clean cuvette - Record light absorbance every 2 minutes for 10 minutes - Repeat experiment twice more
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What are the variables that need to be kept the same for the DCPIP experiment? 2
- Distance from lamp | - Amount of time exposed to lamp
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How can light intensity affect on Hill Reaction be measured?
Vary distance of test tubes away from lamp
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What is in the isolation medium in the DCPIP experiment? 3
- Sucrose - Potassium chloride - Phosphate buffer at pH 7
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Why is sucrose in the isolation medium?
To prevent water drawn up into chloroplasts by osmosis
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What 2 negative control tubes should be set up for DCPIP experiment?
- Test tube with only DCPIP and isolation medium - shows DCPIP colour doesn't naturally deteriorate over time - DCIP, isolation medium and chloroplast extract wrapped in tin foil
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Instead of a quadrat what would you use for flying insects?
A sweepnet
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Instead of a quadrat what would you use for ground insects?
Pitfall trap
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Instead of a quadrat what would you use for aquatic animals?
A net
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