Seneca Lake Lab Report
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Carbon Cycle
Ways I can personally impact the carbon cycle:
- Eating
- Dieing
- Hunting
- Pooping
- Littering
- Breathing
- Driving an automobile
- Buying factory made products
- Setting the forest on fire
- Making it rain
- Cutting down trees
- Making paper
- Heating my house
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Biome
Most accurately, albatross' live in the tundra biome. Albatross are salt water or marine birds whom live on and around oceanic islands. The albatross prefers to stay out on the ocean unless mating or raising their young. Plants found in the tundra have adapted greatly to survive the severe weather conditions. Some of these plants include Bearberries, Arctic Moss and Diamond Leaf Willows. Some animals that find the tundra as their home other than the Albatross are Caribou, Polar Bears and White Wolves. The albatross do eat mostly fish and their only real predators are humans.
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Friday, October 2, 2015
Biomagnification Case Study
Biomagnification is when a toxic substance such as mercury or DDT is transferred up the food chain. For example, DDT is sprayed on crops to keep insects away. Insects consume this DDT and are eaten by shrews, the DDT is built up in the shrew with every toxic insect it eats. Now the shrews are contaminated and they are eaten by hawks. The hawks now have the largest build up of DDT in their system.
Mercury is another toxin released into the environment. Mercury has been polluted right here in Syracuse into Onondaga Lake. The mercury is consumed by every living organism in the lake including micro invertebrate and fish. Outside animals such as birds scoop the infected fish out of the lake for food. Therefor the birds also become infected by the mercury. Birds may be the end of the transferring process with the mercury but may also be eaten by fox or coyote.
Clean up efforts have begun at Onondaga Lake. Big machines are being used to dredge the bottom of the lake and extract polluted material. Onondaga lake is so vastly polluted that riding of all the pollution will take a very long time.
"Onondaga Lake - The Most Polluted Lake In America." Onondaga Nation. N.p., 18 Feb. 2014. Web. 02 Oct. 2015.
Mercury is another toxin released into the environment. Mercury has been polluted right here in Syracuse into Onondaga Lake. The mercury is consumed by every living organism in the lake including micro invertebrate and fish. Outside animals such as birds scoop the infected fish out of the lake for food. Therefor the birds also become infected by the mercury. Birds may be the end of the transferring process with the mercury but may also be eaten by fox or coyote.
Clean up efforts have begun at Onondaga Lake. Big machines are being used to dredge the bottom of the lake and extract polluted material. Onondaga lake is so vastly polluted that riding of all the pollution will take a very long time.
"Onondaga Lake - The Most Polluted Lake In America." Onondaga Nation. N.p., 18 Feb. 2014. Web. 02 Oct. 2015.
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
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