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Activity 1.4: Graphing Rainfall and Fawn Survival

Directions: Use the provided data table below to construct a graph that illustrates the effects rainfall has on
the amount of fawn that are able to survive.

Year Rainfall Fawns surviving to

(cm) December (fawns per 100
females)
1995 11 12
1996 3 0
1997 4 0
1998 19 32
1999 6 0
2000 5 15
2001 15 78
2002 2 9

-Complete and label the scale on the x-axis

-Complete and label the scale on the y-axis
-Title your graph and create a key
-Draw a bar graph for the rainfall data
-Draw a line graph for the fawn data
Questions:

1. How did the amount of rain change over time?

It would increase and decrease a lot of times.

2. How did the survival rate of Sonoran fawns change over time?
The more decrease of rainfall the more decrease of fawns so no rainfall no fawns they die.

3. What is the relationship between rainfall and fawn survival?

The rainfall fell on the graph and so did the fawn the rainfall raised up on the graph and the fawns raised up
too.

4. What effect could these changes have on the Sonoran pronghorn population (recall that fawns are baby
pronghorn)?
The effects would have been either the Sonoran pronghorn drop on population or rise.

5. What other biotic and abiotic factors could be affecting the survival rate of the fawns?
The wolfs could be eating the fawns and that means less fawns and their may be no wolfs and the fawns would
increase.
Name two biotic factors:
Wolf killing fawns. hunters killing fawns

Explain how these two biotic factors influence the survival rate of the fawns.
They kill the fawns and that means more deaths and decrease of fawns

Name two abiotic factors:

No humans in the area and no wolfs in that area.

Explain how these two biotic factors influence the survival rate of the fawns.
This would make the survival rate of fawns increase more.