Exploring the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest

Student Handout #2: Virtual Tour & Introduction Questions.

 

Student Name(s) ______________________________                     Date  _________________________

 

Use the back of the page if you need more room to answer questions.

 

1) What was your favorite part of the Virtual Tour?  Why?

 

 

 

 

2) What was the most surprising part of the Tour?

 

 

 

 

3) List three other things you learned by taking the Tour.  Explain

 

 

 

 

 

 

4) During the tour did you see any words with which you were not familiar (for example, “biogeochemistry”)?  List three words (or concepts) that are new to you, and explain them in your own words.

 

 

 

 

 

 

5) If you were a scientist working at Hubbard Brook, what would you want to study?  What types of questions might you try to answer?  Why?  Explain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

6) Do scientists at Hubbard Brook work only individually, or do they sometimes work with each other?  Describe why collaboration and cooperation can help scientists do better research. Page 7.