Lab Report – 4

Ecology & Ecosystem

Course Code: ENV107L

Section: 13

Submitted to

Sohana Shabnam (Ph.D.) (SSM1)

Department of Environmental Science

Submitted by

Marzia Mehjabeen

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 Leaf

 Look on the internet to find the scientific name of the plant from which you have collected
your leaf sample. Write down both its common name and scientific name correctly.

Answer: I have collected the leaf from the Guava tree.

Common name – Common guava
Scientific name – Psidium guajava

 Use the ruler/measuring tape to take measurements of the leaf and use the following equation
to calculate the surface area of that leaf.
Answer: The length of the leaf is 3.5 inches and the width is 1.8 inches.
𝜋
Area of an oval = × Length ×Width
4

3.14159
= × 3.5 × 1.8
4
= 4.95 𝑖𝑛𝑐ℎ2

 Use leaf surface drawing technique to calculate the surface area of the leaf. (Attach the leaf
with the graph paper.)

Answer:

Figure 1. Surface area drawing of Common Guava leaf on graph paper.

The surface area drawing of the leaf covered total 4 blocks of inch graph. So, the area is 4 𝑖𝑛𝑐ℎ2 .
 Finally make an herbarium for the plant (from which the leaf was collected) mentioning the
environment of the plant/tree.

Answer:

Figure 2. An herbarium of Common Guava plant.

 Animal

 Find out the scientific name of the animal you have chosen to observe. Write down both its
common name and scientific name correctly.

Answer:

Common name – American cockroach

Scientific name – Periplaneta americana

 Write down its scientific classification with clear picture (not from internet!).

Answer:

Periplaneta americana
Scientific Classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Blattodea

Family: Blattidae
Figure 3. A picture of cockroach.
Genus: Periplaneta

Species: Periplaneta americana

 Find out how does this animal adapts itself with its environment and write them down in four
points.

Answer: Cockroaches are cold-blooded insects. In order to survive, they adapt to their
surroundings. The adaption process of cockroach is demonstrated in the following four examples-

1. Cockroaches are designed to protect themselves as well as to be flexible. They have an

exoskeleton that protects their fragile bodies and allows them to conceal when it molts. The
exoskeleton of the cockroach is both rigid and flexible which let them to climb through
narrow places.
2. Cockroaches are adaptive not only in terms of their food ingredients, but also in terms of
what they should eat. Some cockroaches can survive for up to a month without eating or
drinking.
3. Cockroaches are nocturnal creatures that hide in dark places throughout the day. They have
negative experiences with people because they often wind up more flattened than they were
before the encounter with human. As a result, they tend to be active at night when people
are sleeping. It helps them to avoid human contact.
4. Their legs are designed to run and also to cover the same amount of distance in relation to
their body size. They can survive terrible injuries. When a cockroach loses a limb, it can
regenerate the smaller stage of limb after five weeks.