If you haven't read the first benchmark, READ IT OR this won't make sense. Anyway, we are going to be conducting an experiment. I might have explained it all in the last post. Crud....
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Our topic is climate. I originally wanted to study animals but I got this. Researching about climate is important because climate change is affecting sea turtle populations. If sea turtles become extinct, there won't be any turtles to eat coral and the coral will over-bloom. When the temperature rises, the sea levels rise and turtle eggs will be submerged. Also the sand temperatures rises and it affects the sex of the turtles so there are less males than females.
What my partner and I want to do is study the change of the sand temperatures over the past 10 years and the male sea turtle populations. We want to see what the right sand temp wouldn't affect the turtles' sex. So our scientific question is what temperature will be okay for the turtles so their sex won't be changed. This question is relevant to our topic because climate change is related to animals and our actions affect the ocean. This has to do with our two standards because i wanted to do something related to animals and we wanted it to be interactive enough to send a message. Our hypothesis is if we put a heat lamp with two different temps and put it over sand and record the heat, we could find a right temp in a week. We would put the average sand temp in 2006 and we would put the sand temp this year. We would record the temp and increase or decrease the temp depending on the years. Then we would find the in-between temp and see if that temp would be good enough to not affect the sea turtles. Sources: http://www.worldwildlife.org/species/sea-turtle https://www.worldwildlife.org/magazine/issues/fall-2015/articles/sea-turtles-and-climate-change https://www.worldwildlife.org/climatico/stories/sea-turtles-threats-and-solutions |