SCIENCE LAB REPORT

Title
: Saltwater and Ice Cube

11.19.2015
Earth Science
3RD HOUR
Research Team:
Micaela Garcia -Leader

Edgar Rodriguez- Equipment Manager

Adriana Ruiz- Recorder
Magene Mkoma-Media Manager

EXPERIMENTAL QUESTION
How does the amount of salt in the water affect the time it takes an ice cube to melt?

INTRODUCTION
We are trying to figure out how the ocean affects the climate. For example, we are
trying to know how ocean water (saltwater) can melt ice and compare it to real life.

HYPOTHESIS
If there is more salt than the ice cube will melt faster because there is more salt and there
will be different reactions to the ice cube.

VARIABLES
Independent variable
: Amount of salt (g)
Levels: 0g, 5g, 10g, 15g
Dependent variable
: Amount of time (mins)
Controlled variables
:
1.

Amount of water (200 mL)

2. Same size beaker (250 mL)

3. Same color ice cube
4. The temperature of water
Control Group
: Water by itself

MATERIALS

KosherSalt
Beakers
Coloredicecube
Time/stopwatch
Electronicbalance

 2ozplasticcup
Sharpie

PROCEDURE
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Get beaker
Fill beaker with water about 200ml
Get 1 gram of salt every two minutes
Get colored ice cube
Get timer and data ready
Start timing
Collect data until all ice cubes are melted
Clean up station

DATA
Time (Mins)
Amount of salt
(grams)

13 mins

14 mins

10

15 mins

15

16 mins

GRAPH

ANALYSIS
The data shows that the more salt that was added the more time it took melting the
ice. The reason why this could have happen is because the beaker without salt didnt
take place of the icecube. For instance, the control group (without salt) had the whole
beaker to itself, so it could have expanded everywhere. But the ones with salt
(experimental group) only had the top half of the beaker to melt so it melted slowly.
Also the more salt there was the more time it would have taken to melt the ice. But one
of our problem was with that we have have not taken the realt time. For instance, we
did not put all the ice cubes at the same time with all four beakers which could have
affect our results.

CONCLUSION
We were investigating to see the difference between the control group (no salt) versus
the experimental group (the one with salt.) Our original hypothesis was if If there is
more salt, the the ice cube will melt faster because there is more salt and there will be
different reactions to the ice cube. But we had to reject our original hypothesis because

it was actually the opposite from what our group was thinking of. We thought that the
ice will melt faster with the salt but actually the control group (no salt) melted faster.

RECOMMENDATIONS
If I was to do this experiment again I would use the same color of food coloring as we
did in this lab and I would also use the same size ice as well.

REFERENCES
1. Truszkowski,D.A.(2015).Leture

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