Greenhouse Gases Project Report

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An abstract is an abbreviated version of your laboratory final report. It should be limited to a maximum of 250 words and your abstract should have the following five pieces:Introduction. This is where you describe the purpose for doing your experiment. Why should anyone care about the work you did? You have to tell them why. Did you explain something that should cause people to change the way they go about their daily life? Motivate the reader to finish the abstract and read the entire paper or display board.Problem Statement. Identify the problem you solved or the hypothesis you investigated.Procedures. What was your approach for investigating the problem? Provide brief details about materials.Results. What answer did you obtain? Be specific and use numbers to describe your results. Do not use vague terms like “most” or “some.”Conclusions. State what your experiment contributes to Environmental Health. AYou will be creating a scientific method report of an experiment that I already conducted. Be sure to include the abstract as stated above. Attached is a document that outlines the procedure and materials as well as the format for the report. Also I have attached daily photos of the experiment and of the results. ABSOLUTELY NO PLAGIARISM.

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The landfill experiment:
Part One: Introduction
Food decomposing properly with oxygen in a compost bin is a much different process than food
decomposing in a landfill without oxygen.
This experiment to show us how different foods produce different amounts of greenhouse gases
when sent to a landfill.
What outcomes are produces from greenhouse gases on the environment?
What impact does this have on human health?
The science behind the experiment:
Part Two:
Conduct the laboratory experiment
Laboratory Food Waste
• Utilize scientific method and inquiry to collect, analyze, and discuss
information related to practices and policies related to the environment and that
impact human health.
• Use pictures and or videos to show your work and progress
Use what ever food you have on hand. Don’t purchase anything special food for this lab.
This way you should your specific carbon footprint.
This experiment allows you to actually see the process of what happens when food breaks down
in a landfill.
By choosing different types of foods, (as some foods are prone to produce more gases during
decomposition than others) you will be able to watch the chemical breakdown of each food
source and the relative amount of gas it produces.
By filling each test bottle completely with water, you create anaerobic (oxygen-lacking)
environments that simulate the rudimentary conditions found at a landfill.
Part Three:
Next you will investigate the type of landfill that your waste travels to.
Is it a methane-recapture landfill, in which the methane that is produced is trapped and used to
produce electricity, thus mitigating some of the negative effects of the landfill?
Or does your waste get sent to a traditional landfill that does not capture the gases that are
produced?
Or maybe your waste doesn’t get sent to a landfill at all, but rather an incinerator?
Part Four:
Summary and reflection
How has this research and experiment motivated you to become an environmental steward?
What did you learn about your behavior?
Will it prompt you to make some changes?
Write your laboratory report using an abstract format that address each of the 4 parts of lab.
An abstract is an abbreviated version of your laboratory final report. It should be limited to a maximum of 250
words and your abstract should have the following five pieces:
•
Introduction. This is where you describe the purpose for doing your experiment. Why should anyone care
about the work you did? You have to tell them why. Did you explain something that should cause people to
change the way they go about their daily life? Motivate the reader to finish the abstract and read the entire
paper or display board.
•
Problem Statement. Identify the problem you solved or the hypothesis you investigated.
•
Procedures. What was your approach for investigating the problem? Provide brief details about materials.
•
Results. What answer did you obtain? Be specific and use numbers to describe your results. Do not use
vague terms like “most” or “some.”
•
Conclusions. State what your experiment contributes to Environmental Health. Add your reflection
questions and answers.
•
Use pictures and or videos to show your work and progress

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