Warm or Cold?

Name ______________

Predict. Do you think your mealworm would rather be in a warm environment or a cold environment?

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Sit on the left side of your desk for one minute. Place and ice cube on the right side of your desk. Place your mealworm in the center of your desk equal distances from the warm section and the cold section. Observe which temperature section your mealworm goes to most often. Do this at least five times and record your results using tally marks.

Warm ____________

Cold ____________

My mealworm preferred the _________ area.

Ask ten classmates what color their mealworm went to most often and record those results on the following chart.
Student	Warm	Cold
My mealworm
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10.
From my observations and information I think most mealworms prefer to be in _____________________

From these observations describe the temperature of the environment where you think mealworms are most likely to live. Give at least two reasons why you decided on this answer.

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