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Assignment: SCIE211 Phase 5 Lab Report
Title: Identifying Environmental Hazards
Instructions: You will write a 1-page lab report using the scientific method to answer the following questions:
· Why do you see increases and decreases in the invasive species population?
· What are the implications associated with these alterations to the ecosystem as a whole?
When your lab report is complete, post it in Submitted Assignment files.
Part I: Using the lab animation, fill in the data table below to help you generate your hypothesis, outcomes, and analysis.
Years | Zebra and Quagga Mussel (density/m2) | Phytoplankton (µg/ml) | Zooplankton (µg/ml) | Cladophora Biomass (g/m2) | Foraging Fish (kilotons) | Lake Trout (kilotons) |
0 | 100 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 150 | 15 |
4 | 1,000 | 2.5 | 1 | 100 | 100 | 10 |
7 | 2,500 | 2 | 0.5 | 200 | 80 | 8 |
10 | 7,500 | 1.5 | 0.25 | 600 | 50 | 5 |
13 | 15,000 | 1 | 0.1 | 700 | 25 | 25 |
16 | 7,500 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 243 | 40 | 4 |
20 | 5,000 | 1.75 | 0.4 | 136 | 60 | 6 |
Part II: Write a 1-page lab report using the following scientific method sections:
- Purpose
- State the purpose of the lab.
- Introduction
- This is an investigation of what is currently known about the question being asked. Use background information from credible references to write a short summary about concepts in the lab. List and cite references in APA style.
- Hypothesis/Predicted Outcome
- A hypothesis is an educated guess. Based on what you have learned and written about in the Introduction, state what you expect to be the results of the lab procedures.
- Methods
- Summarize the procedures that you used in the lab. The Methods section should also state clearly how data (numbers) were collected during the lab; this will be reported in the Results/Outcome section.
- Results/Outcome
- Provide here any results or data that were generated while doing the lab procedure.
- Discussion/Analysis
- In this section, state clearly whether you obtained the expected results, and if the outcome was as expected.
- Note: You can use the lab data to help you discuss the results and what you learned.
Provide references in APA format. This includes a reference list and in-text citations for references used in the Introduction section.
Give your paper a title and number, and identify each section as specified above. Although the hypothesis will be a 1-sentence answer, the other sections will need to be paragraphs to adequately explain your experiment.
When your lab report is complete, post it in Submitted Assignment files.