Assignment: Lab Report
Title: Human Impacts on the Sustainability of Groundwater
Instructions: You will need to write a 1-page lab report using the scientific method to answer the following question:
• If current human development does not change, will groundwater sustainability be affected?
When your lab report is complete, post it in Submitted Assignment files.
Part I: Using the time progression of industrialization and human development, fill in the data table below to help you write up your lab report.
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Time Period
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Impact to Forest
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Groundwater Levels
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Saltwater Intrusion
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Farming
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Industrial development
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Population
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1800s
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Large forests
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Lots of groundwater
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No salt water intrusion
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Small farms
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No cities
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Limited housing
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1900s
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Decreased by 50%
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Decreased by 50%
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Ocean moved into ground water
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Farms are larger, but there are fewer
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Exceptional growth of cities and industrial development
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Substantial increase in housing
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2000s
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Decreased by 90%
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Decreased by 90%
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Greater movement of ocean into groundwater
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Same number of farms, but size decreased by 20%
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Industrial development decreased by 10-15%
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Housing development decreased by 10-15%
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Part II: Write a 1-page lab report using the following scientific method sections:
• Purpose
o State the purpose of the lab.
• Introduction
o This is an investigation of what is currently known about the question being asked. Use background information from credible references to write a short summary about concepts in the lab. List and cite references in APA style.
• Hypothesis/Predicted Outcome
o A hypothesis is an educated guess. Based on what you have learned and written about in the Introduction, state what you expect to be the results of the lab procedures.
• Methods
o Summarize the procedures that you used in the lab. The Methods section should also state clearly how data (numbers) were collected during the lab; this will be reported in the Results/Outcome section.
• Results/Outcome
o Provide here any results or data that were generated while doing the lab procedure.
• Discussion/Analysis
o In this section, state clearly whether you obtained the expected results, and if the outcome was as expected.
o Note: You can use the lab data to help you discuss the results and what you learned.
Provide references in APA format. This includes a reference list and in-text citations for references used in the Introduction section.
Give your paper a title and number, and identify each section as specified above. Although the hypothesis will be a 1-sentence answer, the other sections will need to be paragraphs to adequately explain your experiment.