Mimi's Survey on Cycles in Nature

Hi, at school Mum asked me and Evan this question:”Does everything in nature work in cycles?” and I worked out some questions for my friends and family to answer. These are the questions:

How did nature start?

1. Can you name a cycle in nature?
2. Do you agree that nature lives in cycles?
3. If you could make up a cycle, what would it be about?
4. Is there anything in nature that does NOT work in cycles?

 These are the answers:

 1. Out of 13 people there were 10 people who said God started nature and 2 people that said that they don’t know how it started.

2. These are some of the answers for number 2:

Butterfly Lifecycle

Broad beans

Paper

Seasons

Any animals

Tree shedding leaves in autumn

Fruit tree

Water

Frogs -> tadpoles ->frogs,
Seeds-> flowers ->seeds
Day-> night ->day
Spring->summer->autumn-> winter -> spring
Plants die -> leaves rot in the ground-> make food for new plants

 3.  Out of 13 people 9 people said yes they did agree that nature lived in cycles and 0 people said no only 2 people said they were not sure

 4.  Here are all of the cycles that people would make up a cycle:

I would make it so that you did not know what the weather would be like- sunny, snowy, hail, fog, mist,cloudy and lots of others.

         I would make a cycle that meant every time a species of animal became extinct then a new one would appear to replace it.

         My new cycle would be to reuse the fuel in my cars by attaching a hose pipe from the exhaust to a gadget which changes it back to petrol - not sure you would call this nature though.

         Huge pods of dolphins coming to exmouth every year to have their young!

        This is a funny one - I do have a cycle but its in the garage not in nature but it does come out in seasons when I want to go out for a ride and then the wheels do go round. So, I suppose you could say it's a cycle going round in seasons!

 5.   These  are the answers people think nature does not work in cycles  :

weather

maybe the universe

        MOUNTAINS

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Comments

[Eric St.Clair]

Very good Mimi!

[Nanny_B]

Very interesting! I wonder if I know the 'funny' person who has a cycle going round in seasons? Looking forward to taking part in your next survey! X