A student thinks that more dandelion plants grow in the sunny part of a school field than in the shaded part next to a tall building.
The student has:
quadrats
two long tape measures
a random number generator
a light meter
a thermometer.
Describe how the student could carry out a field investigation to test her idea.
Include the abiotic factors she should measure.
109 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Biology 6.1 Monitoring and maintaining the environment, covering 6.1.1 Field investigation of distribution and abundance, 6.1.2 Human interactions and biodiversity, 6.1.3 Maintaining biodiversity, and 6.1.4 Environmental change and distribution of organisms. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.