1/22/16
Partner: Cinthia Chavez
My partner and I conducted tests on our water sample. We gathered rain water from a watering bucket. We then took our sample back to the classroom to perform five different tests, pH level, salinity, conductivity, dissolved oxygen and nitrate. Unfortunately, we ran out of class time and could not conduct our conductivity test.
The pH level of our water was 7, which is neutral. If water is too basic (7+) or acidic (-7), it makes it difficult for living organisms to survive in the water. It would really hurt the animals living there, it could ever kill them all.
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We put a chloride tab, in 10 milliliters of our water. Then we shook the test tube for 5 minutes. Salinity is the amount of salt that is in the water, pretty much explaining how salty it is. Too much salt, could cause aquatic life to dehydrate and die. At the end our test, our water was not salty at all!
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The dissovled oxygen in water is like the oxygen in our air. Fish, sea plants, and other sea life depend on this. They breath it through the water. With a bad test result, everything that lived in that area would suffocate. Our Disolved Oxygen test came out to be 4ppm.
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We then conducted our nitrate test. We used 5 millimeters of water for this test. We shook the test tube to help dissolve the Nitrate tab we tab we put in. After a bit of shaking our water turned a soft pink color. Our test result was 50ppm. We tested Dissolved Oxygen because it's important for life to thrive.
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Partner: Cinthia Chavez
My partner and I conducted tests on our water sample. We gathered rain water from a watering bucket. We then took our sample back to the classroom to perform five different tests, pH level, salinity, conductivity, dissolved oxygen and nitrate. Unfortunately, we ran out of class time and could not conduct our conductivity test.
The pH level of our water was 7, which is neutral. If water is too basic (7+) or acidic (-7), it makes it difficult for living organisms to survive in the water. It would really hurt the animals living there, it could ever kill them all.
(Insert Photo and graph)
We put a chloride tab, in 10 milliliters of our water. Then we shook the test tube for 5 minutes. Salinity is the amount of salt that is in the water, pretty much explaining how salty it is. Too much salt, could cause aquatic life to dehydrate and die. At the end our test, our water was not salty at all!
(Insert photo and graph)
The dissovled oxygen in water is like the oxygen in our air. Fish, sea plants, and other sea life depend on this. They breath it through the water. With a bad test result, everything that lived in that area would suffocate. Our Disolved Oxygen test came out to be 4ppm.
(Insert photo and graph)
We then conducted our nitrate test. We used 5 millimeters of water for this test. We shook the test tube to help dissolve the Nitrate tab we tab we put in. After a bit of shaking our water turned a soft pink color. Our test result was 50ppm. We tested Dissolved Oxygen because it's important for life to thrive.
(photo and graph)