Nelson+Group+5

Nelson Group 5- Ransen, Ashley, Justin Ryan, Jo Brown


 * Research Concept - Sampling water near mills vs sampling water away from mill sites.**

__Purpose__ - What effects will river water polluted by mills have on aquatic plant life compared to clean river water?

Research - http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761570933/pollution.html http://www.grinningplanet.com/2006/12-05/water-pollution-effects.htm

__Hypothesis__ - We predict that the plant watered with the polluted river water will die, or at least show less signs of life than the other one. The other plant will probably grow normally on account of it is being watered with clean water.

__Materials__:
 * Two aquatic plants of the exact same species.
 * Two labelled containers to keep the plants in.
 * Polluted river water from near a mill site.
 * Clean river water from a site far from a mill.

__Procedure__: Step One: Get two buckets of river water; one bucket should be filled with water taken from near a mill site, and another one from a part of the river that is quite far from a mill site. Step Two: Get two auqatic plants of the exact same species. Step Three: Find two containers and label one "Polluted water" and the other one "Clean water", put one plant in each container. Step Four: Put the polluted water into the container with the proper label and do the same with the clean water.

__Analysis__: During the experiment, we saw that the aquatic plants that were in the polluted mill water died  before the plants in the clean river water. As you can see from our pictures the plants in the polluted river water died with in the first few days, and the plants in the clean river water lived through the whole experiment