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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.