1. The Changes of Environmental Variables Causing the Sexy Shrimp To Dance By Will Geraghty and Cal Pearce

2. Hypothesis- When the environmental variables of the sexy shrimp change then the amount of dancing will change. Background

3. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda Family: Hippolytidae Genus: Thor Species: Thor Amboinensis Sexy Shrimp

4. Habitat - Symbiotic relationship Food - Anemone’s Mucus Mating - Year round - No real courtship - protandric hermaprhodites The Sexy Shrimp (Thor amboinensis)

5. Ecosystem Role -Anemone -Mantis Shrimp Economic importance to humans -Popular Sexy Shrimp continued...

6. -Using a filming apparatus to film the shrimp when dancing -Frag Tank - Put them in a tank with multiple other fish/marine life Methods

7. -Camera -Research Binder -A tank (Frag Tank) -Multiple Sexy Shrimp -Hydrometer -Refractometer Materials

8. Data Sheet

9. What is the food that increases the sexy shrimps likelihood to dance? What is the most likely circumstance that a sexy shrimp will dance? Do the shrimp dance more when it is mating season? How will these shrimp react with other organisms already in the tank? Will we be able to produce more sexy shrimp? Discussion Questions

10. What is the food that increases the sexy shrimps likelihood to dance? Research shows that it does not. Question 1

11. What is the most likely circumstance that a sexy shrimp will dance? Where? What is around? Question 2

12. Do the shrimp dance more when it is mating season? Year round mating season. Nothing to do with reproduction Question 3

13. How will these shrimp react with other organisms already in the tank? Very important in regards to dancing. Question 4

14. Will we be able to produce more sexy shrimp? -Need for a sexchange to take place Question 5

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19. -Locating the Sexy Shrimp in the tank -Filming the Sexy Shrimp -One of the Sexy Shrimp dying Challenges

20. This hypothesis held true in the sense that once they were in their correct environment they would dance more and if they were out of it, they would not Reflection On Hypothesis

21. -Film everything they do -Have more than 4 - to hard to locate 4 For Future

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