Smoking cricket
Alivia Watson
MV
• Blowing cigarette smoke in to the crickets
RV
• How much the crickets chirp
CV
• Time for one minute, a control group not
exposes to cigarette smoke
Materials
• 1 Prepared 4containers holding one female
and 4 males crickets in each containers, one
person to blow cigarette smoke in to each
container but not blow cigarette smoke into
the control group, timer, apple, potato, carrot,
cardboard
Hypothesis
• As I have a cigarette person blow smoke into
the container were the crickets then the
crickets will not chirp a lot because of the
cigarette smoke.
Problem
• How can I find out how cigarette smoke affect
the crickets.
Question
• How does cigarette smoke affect crickets?
Procedure
1.Materials: 4 containers with one female and 4 males crickets in each,
one person to blow cigarette smoke in to each container, but not
the control group, timer.
2.First put one female and 4 males into each containers you should
have 4 containers.
3.They put cricket water and a apple or carrot, potato and cardboard
into the containers so that they will be alive.
4. Then you get a person who smokes cigarettes and have the person
blow cigarette smoke into the containers, but don’t have the
cigarette person blow smoke into the control group.
5. Then record them chirping and what they are doing 1 minute before
and 1 minute after.
6. Don’t get cigarette smoke in the control group
Conclusion
• Therefore my hypothesis was wrong because
when I did my data collecting. It showed that
they like the cigarette smoke. They started
chirping and became active.
Background
I am going to be writing about cigarette smoke and some causes because of cigarette
smoke. Also about crickets and how you tell them a part. Plus a little bite about different kinds of
crickets.
Cigarette smoke effects your health. It is very serious and in many cases deadly. There are
hundreds of which that is toxic. Cigarette smoke affects every thing from the internal functioning
of organs to the efficiency of the body’s immune system. This all means if you smoke you can die or
get many diseases from it. So it will be best if you don’t smoke cigarettes ever.
Causes of cigarette smoke. Nicotine is a causes from smoking cigarettes. It reaches the brain
within 10 seconds after you inhale the cigarette smoke. Carbon monoxide is a causes of cigarette
too. Carbon monoxide binds to hemoglobin in the red blood cells. Also preventing affected cells
from carrying a full load of oxygen.
crickets can live for 3 day without food and water. In my observations they can live a long
time with food and water. If they don’t kill each other. Crickets are very mean to each other. There
are many different kinds of crickets. Also you can tell they a part because the females have a thing
coming out of them and the males don’t. Also both sexes poop a lot.
There are many different kinds of crickets. For examples the Adult House crickets are is ¾
to 1 inch long. They are light yellowish brown with 3 dark bands on their heads. Next type is of
cricket is the Field cricket. They are slightly longer than House crickets. Also they are dark brown,
gray or black. The Field crickets prefer to live out side. They feed on plants ,will come inside if
food sources dry up or there is none. The third kind of cricket is a Tree cricket. They feed on plants
or other insects.
Results
• They liked the cigarette smoke. It made them
more active. They started chirping and they
didn’t chirp before.
Data Table
Trials
Observations one minute before
1
They did nothing
2
They were a little active
3
They chirped a little not a lot
Observations one minute after
1
They moved around a lot and they were chirping a little
2
The crickets like the cigarette smoke and chirped a lot more
3
They went in and out of the cardboard roll that was in there and chirped
way more and it look like some of them were trying to dance.