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SCI 207 (DEPENDENCE OF MAN ON THE


ENVIRONMENT) ENTIRE NEW COURSE
SCI 207 NEW Week 1 Assignment Environmental Footprint
1. What are the 3 everyday products and practices that contribute most to your environmental
footprint?
Mobility, Goods and services
2. What impacts might result if everyone in the world had the same lifestyle as you? For example,
what might the impacts be on:
A. Earths climate? We would have a really polluted air more than what it is now
B. The health of ecosystems and biodiversity? It would not have much of a health
C. Humanitys natural resource base and thus economic security? NO security or natural resource,
our natural resources will be contaminated.

SCI 207 NEW Week 1 Lab 1 Introduction to Science


1.

What patterns do you observe based on the information in Table 4?


The fewer amounts of fish, the more oxygen there is in the water. They
oxygen is measured in 2s and the less fish there is the more oxygen there is.

1.

Develop a hypothesis relating to the amount of dissolved oxygen measured in


the water sample and the number of fish observed in the body of water?
The more fish there is, the less amount of oxygen there is in the water.
According to authors Mckinsey& Chapman, for fishes, dissolved oxygen is an
abiotic factor that can limit habitat quality and affect survival, growth, and
reproduction (Mckinsey, D. & Chapman, L. 1998, pg. 211, para. 1).

1.

What would your experimental approach be to test this hypothesis?


I would add fish to the water and test the oxygen, and then remove fish and
test the oxygen with each (ppm) in counts of 2 (ppm). Also, I would use the
same spot, and the same time of day.

1.

What would be the independent and dependent variables?

SCI 207 NEW Week 2 Lab 2 Water Quality and Contamination

Hypothesis:
If I put a mixture of potting soil and oil/vinegar/laundry detergent it will make four different types of
dirty water.
Post-Lab Questions:
1.

1.
know?

Restate your hypothesis. Was it confirmed or denied? How do you

If I put a mixture of potting soil and oil/vinegar/laundry detergent it will make four different types of
dirty water. Yes, the experiment did confirm my hypothesis since when I added the soil mixture in it
did make four dirty types of filthy water.
1.

2.

What affects did each of the contaminants have on the water in

the experiment? Which contaminant seemed to have the most potent effect
on the water?
The effects of the contaminated water were that the mixture showed each water type to have a
brown color to them. The water type that seemed to have both a surprising and potent effect was
the water and soil mixture. I would have thought with using strictly water and potting soil the water
turned the darkest brown out of all the other contaminants that I used for the mixture. The vinegar
and soil mixture seemed to have cleaner look to them.
1.

3.

On a larger scale, what type of affects would these contaminants

have on a towns water source and the people who drank the water?
If people were to ingest this contaminated water they might get sick, have birth defects, have trouble
having a child, may die, etc.
1.

4.

What type of human activity would cause contaminants like oil,

acid and detergents to flow into the water supply?


On a daily basis humans are dumping waste like oil and acid onto their earth without even realizing
it. With drilling for oil they risk the occasional oil spill and if humans are taking the proper care of a
landfill site they also risk these contaminates to sink into the Earths surface.

SCI 207 NEW Week 3 Assignment Outline if the Final Lab Report
ABSTRACT
Ground water is the biggest source of drinking water available to human population
around the world and is rapidly being polluted because of industrialization and
increasing demands of agriculture around the world. A set of simple experiments were
done to find out what kind of changes do some of these contaminants cause in ground
water. Samples of tap water and bottled water were also analyzed for safety. Chemicals

like oil, vinegar and soap cause turbidity, odor and color change in water samples. Tap
water is much safer to drink than bottled water because it contains less contamination
than bottles water.
INTRODUCTION
Ground water is present below the surface in porous rocks and is susceptible to contamination by
natural and especially human related activities. Large amounts of chemicals like soap and
detergents, fertilizers and pesticides, pharmaceutical by-products are discharged in to fresh water
aquifers every day. These contaminants leach in to the soil and dissolve in ground water. Different
contaminants have different rates of solubility and degradation once they reach the underground
water table either by simple flow or by the downward movement of rain water. The ground water may
become contaminated with both organic and inorganic substances especially heavy metals like
Cadmium, Chromium and Nickel, etc. (Christensen et al, 2001).

SCI 207 NEW Week 3 Lab 3 Biodiversity

Lab 3 - Experiment 1: Interdependence of Species

Table 1: Interdependence of Species Results

Round

Species Missing (Bead Color and Name)

Red-Flowers

Yellow-Bees

Orange-Trees

Blue-Humans

Hypothesis: If trees were not part of the ecosystem, then there would be a lack of food for the bees.

Post-Lab Questions
1.

Restate your hypothesis. Was it confirmed or denied? How do you know?


If trees were not part of the ecosystem, then there would be a lack of food for bees. It was confirmed
because of the chart that showed each part of the ecosystem and how it affected other parts of the
ecosystem.

1.

Indicate which species was removed during each round of the experiment.
Flowers were removed the first round, bees in the second round, trees in the third round, and
humans in the last round.

1.

Explain how the ecosystem was affected by the missing species for each round of
the experiment.
In the first round the flowers werent there, which means the bees would lose out on a food source.
In the second round there were no bees, which means the flowers and trees would not get
pollinated. In the third round there were no trees, which means that the flowers wouldnt get shade
and wind protection. In the last round there were no humans, which I personally felt made the least
significant change to the ecosystem.

1.

What actions do we as humans engage in that can lead to extinction of any of


these components?

We as humans pollute the air and environment with our cars and littering carelessly. Also, we chop
down trees to build building we do not need as much as the trees.
1.

What can we do to minimize our impact on the ecosystem?

SCI 207 NEW Week 4 Lab 4 Energy Sources and Alternative Energy

ab 4 - Experiment 1: The Effects of Coal Mining

Table 1: pH of Water Samples

Water Sample

Initial pH

Final pH

Pyrite

Activated Carbon

Water

Hypothesis: The beaker with only water would be clear the carbon would turn black when added and
the other one will turn grey.

Post-Lab Questions
1.

Restate your hypothesis. Was it confirmed or denied? How do you know?

The beaker with only water would be clear the carbon would turn black when added and the other
one will turn grey. The beaker with water stayed clear so that was confirmed. The beaker that the
carbon was added to did not turn black so that was denied. I know due to the carbon sank to the
bottom and some floated on top. The third beaker did not turn grey. that was also denied. The pyrite
sank to the bottom with a little floating at the surface of the water.
1.

What, if any, change did you observe within your water samples?
The changes that I observed was that the pyrite was at the bottom and a handful of the particles
formed little balls. The water was a light shade of grey. The Carbon stayed mostly on the bottom with
a handful of them on top of the surface and the water had a tint of black. The water remained clear
but had air bubbles in the beaker.

1.

What type of substance formed in the jars?


The substance I would have to say was the ball formation of the pyrite and the air bubbles in the
water.

1.

What effect do you predict coal mining has on the environment?


I would have to say that from the reading that it can be very harmful for the coal mining chemicals to
seep into the ground into our drinking water.

1.

What can be done to prevent mine drainage from damaging the ecosystem?
Maybe putting in some weeping system that would pull the water to a different location that could
drain into a container of some sort.

SCI 207 NEW Week 5 Lab 5 Weather and Climate Change

Lab 5 - Experiment 1: Modeling the Water Cycle


Hypothesis: The jar will steam up and sweat and the water will return to the water.
Post-Lab Questions

1.

Restate your hypothesis. Was it confirmed or denied? How do you know?


The jar will steam up and sweat and the water will return to the water. Yes, there was water under
the lid of the jar.

1.

Which water cycle processes are represented in this model and by what
components?
Evaporation and condensation, the warm water evaporated into water vapors that were trapped
under the lid then returned to water.

1.

Which processes are not represented? How could the model be altered to include
these processes? Transpiration, sublimation, surface run-off, infiltration, and percolation.
I really do not see how to make the model different unless you also include soil and
make the jar larger, but with the other experiment being done in the same week it all
works together.

1.

How would the weather be affected if the water was at a decreased


temperature? What about at an increased temperature? How could you model these
changes in this system? I think that a decreased temperature would cause the water to
evaporate slower and an increased temperature would cause it to evaporate quicker.

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