I learned alot on our trip to the river. I learn how to test BOD and DO. I also learned about all the litte organisms in our river. I was one of the two people that got waders on and went in the water to help the lady colect all of them. Our q-value was 52 and our overall q-value was 73.779. I didn't expect our value to be so good because our river always looks really dirty and like it has trash in it to me. My action project can help our river by keeping fetilizer off our trails so that it doesn't pollute our river.
1)The largest great lake according to volume is Lake Superior and the smallest is Lake Erie.
2)The most urban lake is Lake Erie and the most rural is Lake Superior.
3)The lake with the longest shoreline is Lake Huron.
4) We can best manage our ecosystem by keeping the pollutants put out to a minimum because everything around us eventually runs back into the great lakes and we want to keep those as healthy as possible.
5)Pollutants that have to do with our project is fertilizers and pesticides. Many of the farms surround our trails and we don't want their chemicals to get into our trails' ecosystem.
Preliminary Questions:
1) Water from my house goes into our local watershed.
2) Runoff water is water that doesnt absorb into the earth. The runoff water goes into our near by storm drains or the river.
3)In the citys, runoff water goes into the same places as the sewage. This is not good because it contaminates our clean water.
4) The sources of pollution in runoff water is smog, fertilizers, pesticides, and other sorts of chemicals put on the ground.
5)Point source pollution comes from an easily known place like a factory emitting CO2. Non-point source pollution is when it comes from a place that isn't as known like a car leaking oil.
6) A watershed is an area where all the water goes to the same place.
