Materials and Methods Nikon Compound Microscope Glass Microscope slides Cover Slips Paper Towels Thermometer Glass Jar pH Strips I took the sample pond water from the library pond (Central Michigan University), thinking well during mock rock this year I want to know really what I am swimming in. So I took a jar then scooped it up from the muskiest part of the pond. After collecting the sample we placed the sample in a glass jar in the Biology lab at Mid Michigan Community College by a window and then it was sealed with oxygen holes. We would be checking on the sample once a week for lasting six weeks, just incase we…show more content… As the oxygen levels increased, the water looked and smelled cleaner, and more life was visible.”(Example) My pond water did the exact opposite, the odor and the color changed for the worse. However things that I found in the Central Michigan University Library was very disturbing, I found large single celled organisms called Protozoan and these guys can create some huge problems with people if they ingest any of the water during their little dip into the CMU Library pond. “Protozoan’s are typically large single celled organisms and are found mainly in aquatic environments. These organisms if ingested may cause gastrointestinal disease, dysentery and ulcerations of the liver and intestines.” (Storm water) Reading over the stuff and things that are swimming around in the pond makes me wary on every participating in Homecoming week again. I was expecting more things swimming around during my microscope observations but I think that CMU chlorinates the pond so things are killed off, or at least most things are killed by the chlorine. I also was shocked to find out that the pH level raised over time, I thought it would be more consistent then it was. Another thing that I was confused about was that my pond water did the exact opposite thing everyone else’s did. My water became darker and cloudier with a more intense smell. I have no idea why that happened and I would like to
species that possess vocal sacs, which swell enormously when the frog calls to attract a mate.... [tags: essays research papers] 413 words (1.2 pages) FREE Essays [view] Frogs - Frogs are needed for everyday life. They are part of pond life. Each animal is important because even in the pond, there is a food chain. Frogs are amphibians, animals that spend half of their lives under water, and remainder on land. The first frog appeared in the early Jurassic period about 200 million years ago.…
showing lack of respect. Leading up to this scene Faustus is making his way back home and is stopped by the horse-courser who wants to buy Faustus’s horse. Faustus sells the horse to him for forty dollars warning him not to ride the horse into water and becomes indignant when the horse-course suggests he may be a vet. After he has gone Faustus sits and contemplates his forthcoming fate giving a soliloquy in which he Gives the audience an insight into what he is feeling questioning what he has…
insects eating their crops. Before Carson goes any farther, she defines the word that she will use constantly; Parathion. Carson describes Parathion as “a universal killer” (27-28). Not only does Rachel Carson use Organization as a technique in her essay, but she also uses Sentence Structure and Sentence Variety. She uses simple sentences to state something important before she elaborates on it. For example, she says “There is a growing trend toward aerial applications of such deadly poisons as parathion…
Essay on :- From Biosphere to Ecological Niche ! The biosphere can be divided into a series of biogeographically regions, each inhabited by distinctive species of animals and plants. These organisms are able to move freely from place to place within each region, but not from one region to another, this being prevented by various natural barriers like river, lake, sea, mountain, desert, etc. Such biogeographical regions include Eurasia, South America, Africa and Australia. Although they may…
12/9/13 Research for the Joseph McCarthy essay: (if we ever have school) McCarthy then ran as the Republican candidate for the Wisconsin Senate seat, where he used propaganda and erroneous accusations against his opponent, Robert La Follette, to promote his own campaign As re-election began to loom closer, McCarthy, whose first term was unimpressive, searched for ways to ensure his political success, resorting even to corruption The American public went crazy with the thought of seditious…
production, marketing, chemicals manufacturing and so on (Chevron Corporation. n.d.). Although Chevron produce energy to power economic growth of America, even the whole world, the environmental problems it caused has aroused great public concern. This essay analyses the environmental…
Huntsinger 1 Tyler Huntsinger Professor Hofer AML 2010 Essay 1 12 October 2014 “Brute Neighbors” My neighborhood as a child was one of beauty. Some of my neighbors felt it was much to far from town, from modern living. The busy hustle of cars and people racing back and forth from home to work, from store to store. I liked the distance; it brought me to peace after a long day at school. Drowning in my peers’ voices all day was nowhere near as loud as the screaming peace of the wooded place I called…
Essay #1: The Narrative The waves crashed down at a velocity only measurable by Mother Nature plunged me down into the abyss of the ocean floor. Her volume and mass of water tossed me around like a pin ball bouncing off rubber paddles. I helplessly squirmed around trying to find my sense of direction. Thoughts of accepting a trophy, coated with a glazy gold plastic dip, on a podium at the Olympics ran through my head as I demonstrated different variations of underwater cartwheels: one handed, two…
finally have the house to myself. I pull out my green foamy yoga mat and give my muscles and limbs a nice stretch, they thank me. I grab a spoonful of loose-leaf tea and put it into a tea bag which goes into a cup filled with steaming water. I quickly see my clear water turn into a dark red of colour. I smell the vanilla rouibous and melt, I add a touch of honey and I always manage to get a bit on my thumb which I lick off and a burst of sweetness greets my mouth. I’m pretty impatient, I take a sip…
This boy’s house is something else. First you come to this mountain, and then you commence to drive and drive up this road that’s lined with magnolias. Do magnolias grow on mountains? I was wondering. And you come to lakes and you and you come to ponds and you come to deer and you come up on some sheep. And I figure these is sposed to represent England and Wales. And you just keep coming to stuff. Illustration is the use of examples to make ideas more concrete and to make generalizations more…
