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Video Viewing Questions

  1. What type of prairie is Tucker Prairie? What does this mean?

  2. What surrounds Tucker Prairie? What do conservationists call this type of barrier?

  3. How do the Prairie’s immediate surroundings impact its biological communities?

  4. What are some causes of fires on prairies?

  5. What is the purpose of dividing the prairie into blocks?

  6. What are some ways you can improve your sampling when using quadrants?

  7. What are the different types of vegetation we see on Tucker Prairie?

  8. Professor Holdo describes Tucker Prairie as a hard pan prairie. What does this mean? How does this impact what lives there?

  9. What does it mean to say that there is “local variation” on the Prairie?

  10. What 3 important components of experimental design did Professor Holdo describe as necessary to achieve good scientific results?

  11. Why are the burn plots at Tucker Prairie NOT set up to produce valid experimental results?

Text Set

A set of related readings, videos, and podcasts to further student understanding about the role of fire in prairie ecosystems

Text Set Questions

Questions to guide students in making sense of ideas in the text set.

Fire

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