Wednesday, January 20, 2010

intern application (take 2)

My experimental study seeks to find the effect of acid rain on zooplankton. The independent variable I will be studying is acid rain. Numerous things cause acid rain, for example, gases from factories, cars, planes and many more things produce acid rain. These gases are carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, chlorofluorocarbons, hazardous air pollutants, lead, nitrogen oxides, ozone, particulate matter, sulfur dioxides and volatile organic compounds. The jet stream carries these toxic gases throughout our atmosphere and is then caught into clouds. The gases then dissolve into rainwater to form acid rain. Later when it rains local bodies of water have a major affect on the earth. These affects include the following disintegrating trees, poisoning water and much more. In result of acid rain many organisms living in environments that are being affected by acid rain can get poisoned, which may lead to death.
Plankton and other forms of small organisms and plants, such as algae are the foundation of every food chain. It is necessary to keep this plant safe. For organisms that depend on zooplankton to live, there will be some problems due to the increases in pollution, which results in acid rain. The oceans food chain goes like this: phyto plankton at the bottom, then zoo plankton, then fish larvae, then smaller fish, then larger predators. All of those animals (other than the phyto plankton) eat the zooplankton. So this means if the acid rain poisons the zooplankton, most of the animals in the sea but be terribly endangered.


That was part B. I know it is a little short but i think the info that i have in there is very good. Quality over quantity!

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