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Yessica Pacheco and looking at it through a telescope. The variables that were monitored were the amounts of phytoplankton and transmittance of seawater. Data Tables:
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CONCLUSION: My hypothesis was that the flask with nutrients and iron will have more phytoplankton than the flasks with just water and just nutrients. This hypothesis wasn't correct because as shown in the data above, the flask with just the nutrients had the most amount of phytoplankton. The flask with nutrients and iron were supposed to have the most phytoplankton, but there must have been an error somewhere in my groups procedure and/or the measuring of data. What I learned was that nutrients are the reason why there is life in the ocean and the reason why the phytoplankton grow. Phytoplanktons are marine organisms that are the keystone species in marine ecosystems. Phytoplankton needs nutrients such as nitrates, phosphates and iron to survive. Phytoplankton is important in the ecosystem because they are at the bottom of the ocean food web and provide us with more than 50% of our Oxygen. I learned that Phytoplankton is necessary and essential for the whole world. I think we should collect a huge amount of data because the more data we have, the more exact the experiment will be. The pros of iron fertilization are it helps organisms such as phytoplankton to grow bigger. A con in iron fertilization is that the grazers can use that iron which released CO2 gas into the atmosphere. A lot of nutrients are good for the Phytoplankton but not good for the whole ocean.