Questions to Consider

• What similarities and differences can you find when you compare the data on these two pie charts?
• According to these pie charts, what is the biggest difference between this year and last year?
• Why do you suppose monarchs select one colony over another? What factors might be involved?
• What new information can be learned by comparing last year's data to this year's data?
• If you looked at only one year’s set of data, which sanctuary would you say needed to be protected? Looking at the data from these two years, which sanctuaries do you think are the most important to protect? Why?
• Why is it important to have information about the percent of monarchs in each sanctuary from more than one year?
• Scientists can't predict which sanctuaries most monarchs will select in any particular year. How do you think this makes conservation decisions difficult?
• What might happen next year? Predict how the chart will look--and plan to come back to see!