IPad 4 using massive amounts of wifi.

My wife's iPad 2 is using large amounts of wifi data. She has the cellular option, but I have it turned off and all data is going through wifi. My router says she is using 10x more data packets than any other computer in the house, even the ones that have heavy Internet usage. It is using 2x more data than a device we watched Netflix on for 2 hours last night.
How can I determine what apps are using so much wifi data?
This may also impact a data overage we got in just 1 day of cellular use last month. She only has the 256M plan and I didn't think anything of it. I have tried to shut down cellular access by everything but email, Safari and maps.
Thanks,
Jay

Thanks for the response, but I had already done that and it didn't help. Yes, my wife had 30-40 apps running, but shutting them down didn't help.
Based on other things I have read I have turned off Notifications (except email and Facebook) and turned off Location services. That may have helped. I need to run the iPad a while longer, then try turning things back one one at a time.
<5 minutes later>
Wow! I just had her check her email and download the latest Facebook messages. Even though it has only been an hour since she did it, it took 2 Megs of data to get just a couple of messages.
Obviously I need to play with this some more.
Anyone have problems with major data loads from Facebook?
Thanks,
Jay

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