Ecology Lab Report: Creating an Ecosystem in a Bottle Essay -- essays

Objective To create an ecosystem contained in a bottleful with some(prenominal) terrestrial and aquatic environss sealed to the outside world.Hypothesis/Predictions I telephone the fish give last for 3 days. I predict the crickets will last for a week.Materials 1. fish 2. Water 3. 2 plants 4. Soil 5. nonplus 6. Graphite 7. 2 Liter Bottle (2) 8. Tape 9. 2 Snails 10. 3 cricketsProcedure Cut top off 2 liter bottle and bottom off another. Fill the one without a top with urine and put a plant, 1 fish, and 2 snails in water supply. Put a rag through the top of other bottle and pile with graphite (rocks). Put dirt, plants, and anything else that is required or put in optionally in container.Data Water Level 1- 10 cm Plant summit 1- 9 cm 2- 10 cm 2- 9 cm3- 10 cm 3- 9 cm4- 10 cm 4- 10 cm5- 10 cm 5- 10 cm 6- 10 cm 6- 10 cm7- 10 cm 7- 10 cm 8- 10 cm 8- 10 cm9- 98 mm 9- 10 cmLogs twenty-four hour period 1 5/22/07The water has turned into a genuinely light and transparent yellow. E reallything in tank calculates in order. Crickets and fish seem lively. Not much change. Day 2 5/25/07The water is a medium shade of yellow. The fish and crickets s... ... yes the ecology project of cut throughThrough the exciting endeavors of my experimentation I have discoered over time that my environment has changed dramatically The mighty creatures of before have go to their graves. Only 50% of all l ife from the beginning of my project inactive lives. During the experiments I have discovered that both my early predictions came adjust. The crickets did live for a week and my fish lived for more then 3 days. My predictions came as true as Edward Cayce?s. During this experiment I learned that a tiny environment within a 2 liter bottle was possible and it could very easy be capable of life. It seems in the end this experiment has do me wiser and stronger in a sense and gave me strength to keep on marching toward a bright future in which the old days shall pass and everyone shall be just as it once was many years agone?..