Lemon-Peppered+Moths

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A pie chart is appropriate for this kind of data because we are trying to show the percent of moths eaten in each type of forest, and pie charts made the data very clear, so it was the best chart.

Claim: Since there are different colored forests, the population of the moths that are the opposite color of the forests will decrease.

Evidence: We played a game where you were playing as a European Robin, one of the Lemon-Peppered moths' predators, and you had 2 different settings: a dark colored forest and a light colored forest. In each of the forests there were dark and light colored moths. The point of the game was to eat as many as you can. The test of the game, though, was to see which of the colored moths you could eat more of. In the light colored forest, I had eaten a lot of moths, but in the end, there were 48% dark colored moths left and 52% light colored moths left. In the dark colored forest, there were 61% of dark colored moths left and 39% light colored moths left.

Science Reasoning: It was noticed that there were more of each moth in their natural habitat, and that is because they camouflage. They fit into the background because they are the same color as it, and this is so they won't be seen by predators. The predators choose the moth that is the opposite color of the habitat because that is their natural selection. That moth is easier to see, and the thing a species needs most is food, so that is why they eat the moth that is the opposite color of the habitat. This means that after a long period of time, there will only be dark moths in the dark forest and light moths in the light forest because their camouflage is a quality to their advantage.