Pollution

=How Pesticides Effect Plants= by Anne media type="custom" key="3796153"

My project was about what happens to plants when you put pesticides on them, such as ant killers. The way I did this is I bought three common house plants. On the first plant I watered it and left it normal. On the second plant I watered it and sprayed pesticides on the soil and on top of the leaves. On the third plant I watered it and covered the soil and leaves with the powder pesticides. I did this experiment over a period of 8 days. On the 4th day I added more pesticides to each plant. The pesticide that had the most effect was the powder.

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=Can certain objects take motor oil out of water?= By: Mason

media type="custom" key="3577202" Materials: 200ml of tap water, 50ml of motor oil, .7g of saran wrap The saran wrap took out approximately 38ml of the motor oil.

Materials: 200ml of tap water, 50ml of motor oil, .7g of tin foil The tin foil took out approximately 30ml of the motor oil.

Materials: 200ml of tap water, 50ml of motor oil, 50g of salt The salt took out approximately 11ml of the motor oil.

Materials: 200ml of //lake// water, and 50ml of motor oil The //lake// water took out approximately 8ml of the motor oil.

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=How do Crickets React to Chemicals?= by: Jamie media type="custom" key="3623165" My project was about how crickets react to chemicals.The way I did this was I had four boxes and four crickets. I also had four sponges with the chemicals on it. Then I put the sponges in the boxes with the crickets. The chemicals were Oust, Palmolive, Pine-sol, and water for a control test. The results of this experiment were after the first day the Oust and Pine-sol cricket died from all the chemical exposure. Then the water and Palmolive crickets died after the fourth and final day of testing.

=How does noise pollution affect human concetration?=

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=Which trash biodegrades the fastest?= =By:Austin=

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I discovered that the lettuce biodegraded the fastest cause of it high water level and its low density.

=**What are the Effects of Global Warming**=

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By Andrew

media type="custom" key="3567278" For My project i went across the streat to the nature preserve and found some polluted water. Then i went to the pets store and bought four neon tetras. It was a verry fun project and i would encourage you to try it yourself!

=PH VS. LITTER by Grant=

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My project was trying to see how litter thrown into water would affect the Ph level. The Ph was affected by how dissolvable the litter was. The most changed Ph was the granola bar because it dissovled so fast. Another thing that affected the Ph was how much water was in the containers. The average Ph level for fish to live in is 5 to 7. This project was really fun to do and I hope you will try it at home. For my video I used [|blabberize] try it out.

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=OILED BIRDS BY: RIKHA=

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Hey I’m a feather duster; but for Rikha’s project I was a bird. Her project was what is the best way to clean an oiled bird? An oiled bird is a bird that’s been stuck or harmed in an oil spill. If I was a real bird she would have used 1% dawn dish washing soap and 10-20 buckets. She used 10 plastic containers, vegetable oil, Palm Olive dish washing soap, 2 liters of water in each bucket and oil based paint. Your probably thinking why would she use that, well im yellow, the oil’s yellow, so how are you supposed to see when I’m clean? Well she mixed that with the oil and I turned the oil blue. (That’s my favorite color) so anyways you line up the buckets with soapy water and you put me in the 1st bucket when; when it starts to feel oily you put it in the next bucket. Keep doing that down the line. That’s the already made way. My way is leave it in over night and it actually works. The cool thing is you can see the oil coming out from me to the water. I used to be blue but after only 2 days left in the water I was clean and when rikha was in the class room she just washed me with soap and water. As you can see I’m not blue so I’m not oiled!!!

=Chemical ecology by Emma= media type="custom" key="3577072"

The topic of my science project is chemical ecology. For my project I sprayed grass and crickets with different chemicals. The kinds of water I used were bleach (the bleach was watered down a little), salt water, and tap water. My grass that I watered with tap water survived. The grass watered with salt water died. The chlorine water (the watered down bleach) was extremely healthy. I found some facts about what certain chemicals do to plants. The reason that the grass sprayed with chlorine lived and thrived was because the chemical makeup of chlorine contains essential nutrients the plant needs to survive. The plant watered with salt water died because when there is salt in the surrounding soil the plant will send out water to neutralize the salt. If there is too much salt water the plant will end up getting dehydrated and die. No cricket sprayed with tap water survived but the crickets probably just drowned. The crickets sprayed with salt water died within 24 hours. The crickets sprayed with chlorine water died the Friday before my presentation. The overall results for the crickets weren’t very good but it was interesting that the crickets sprayed with chlorine water survived longest. I also researched the crickets. The average lifespan of a cricket is one year but they will die if the temperature drops below freezing (Thirty two degrees). I couldn’t find any facts on chemicals and crickets so I researched the effects on humans. The crickets probably died the first day with the salt water because their cells shriveled due to osmosis. Breathing in chlorine can cause damage to the respiratory system for humans. That was my chemical ecology project and I hope you enjoyed it.

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=** What methods work the best for cleaning up oil spills? **= By: Anna For my project I used heavy-duty papertowels, wooden shavings, baking soda,dish detergent, and the material HTP. HTP is a biodegradable and ecofriendly mixture wich absorbs oil off of hard surfaces and out of water. The heavy-duty papertowels and the wooden shavings soaked up and scooped up the oil very well, the baking soda and the dish detergent broke up the oil, but didn't clean it up, and the HTP absorbed the oil very well also. All of the materials worked very, but I concluded that they all had the same problem. They all took the oil out of the water, but all you did was trasfer them into some other harmful sudstance and it is still sort of in the water. Also none of them are ecofriendly, except the HTP. I show some clips of my experiments below. [|http://www.americanproducts1.com] [|mushrooms/]media type="file" key="science project final.wmv"

=Plastic Bags= media type="custom" key="3625169" By: Bennett Over the past few weeks I did my Project on plastic bags. I surveyed 25 student and it averaged out to 8963. So if we could stop my school from using plastic bags we could save a ton of animals. THANK YOU

Eco-friendly Paint By.Ellora Lalla

for my project i decided to find out how eco-friendly paint is different then regular paint and what the difference is. Well the main difference is that eco paint generally has less harmful chemicals in them. when I did my project which was that I got a tub of eco paint and regular paint, they were bouth the same color. Then I painted them both on two seperate peices of card board. Another differnce we found was that eco-friendly paint smells surprisingly like potatoe chips. Eco paint also has less VOC content in it. VOC stands for Volotile Organic Compound. Olympic the paint company is starting to make eco-friendly paint in almost every color. As for the cost they don't have a real cost difference. So start helping the world in this small way.