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THE DEADLY PHOSPHATE. PHOSPHATES By Andy Harris, Chad Harris, Shane Stigall. How does the Phosphate in Rock Creek compare to the Snake River?. *Aquatic Plants need phosphate to grow. * Phospate can be considered as pollution to the water due to decreasing the oxygen
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THE DEADLY PHOSPHATE PHOSPHATES By Andy Harris, Chad Harris, Shane Stigall
How does the Phosphate in Rock Creek compare to the Snake River?
*Aquatic Plants need phosphate to grow * Phospate can be considered as pollution to the water due to decreasing the oxygen in the water. *This cause is also known as eutrophication * When eutrophication continues plants become rotten, and produce a rotten egg oder produced by hydrogen sulfide gasses.
BACKGROUND OF PHOSPHATES Phosphate is a fertilizer. It feeds the plants and alga get to big and use up all of the oxygen so the animals die. To test for phosphates you demineralize the water.
Info on phosphate *The average of phosphate increased this year so it decreased the oxygen and fish in the water, and increased the growth of algae. A few years ago Snake River's phosphate average was very low so the growth of animals in the water was high.
Data Information! Total Phosphate Data .06 How does phosphate make algae grow ? .1 .1 Phosphate makes the plants grow by acting as a fertilizer. .04 .05
Average total Phosphate for Snake River Average total phosphate for Rock Creek Data Collection 1.08 .123154mg/L
Average phoshpate for Snake River Snake River phosphate average for 2001! Data Collection
Conclusion Conclusion How does the phosphate in Rock Creek compare to Snake River phosphate. Rock Creek has more phosphate than the Snake River.
Poem It’s cold on this early fall morning the bus ride here was really boring.I dip the glass into the creek then my partner takes a peek we see the dirt and grim within it.Then we put the pillow in it we let it sit for a while man I wish I had some dial {soap}we put the tubes into this box when I tripped on some rocks the box went flying my hands are dieing I wish I was home in bed.
Poem It smells like a dump, I tripped on a stump, I fell in the creek, I would get sick, It felt cold, I could see mold.
Poem The river is freezing cold, it’s very old this testing can be very dole because were freezing cold.
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