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| School/Teacher: Monterey Highlands Middle School/ Ms. Hua | |
| Class: Seventh Grade Science | Name: Newton He |
| Project Title: Brittle Star | |
| Abstract: In my Marine Science Project I have stated that “if a Brittle star stayed under the rock then it would be safe.” My objective and hypothesis is how water quality affects the brittle star. On our Marine Science trip we started learning how to use procedures to research marine organisms. I observed brittle stars, made records, analyzed the records or data, and came to a conclusion. For example, first we check how many centimeters the secchi disk went down into the sea, second we started digging some worms inside the mud. Third we used an otter trawl that would catch fishes under the sea. Finally we counted how many fishes we caught. Also we used the foral color scale to examine the water quality. My observation told me that brittle starts stayed in the ocean near the reef. Also they hide underneath rocks so they can defend themselves from predators. Some of the brittle stars would die in the polluted water. And also if the brittle star’s arms were to brake they would regenerate! We should not fool around with the brittle star because it is easy to snap off their arms. Brittle Stars must live in qualified water. That means that there is enough dissolved oxygen, enough nutrients, the PH is close to 7, and the water is at the proper temperature. In addition, we must protect our global environment and the lives of the world from the pollution. | |
| School/Teacher: Monterey Highlands Middle School/ Ms. Hua | |
| Class: Seventh Grade Science | Name: Matthew Yoshioka |
| Project Title: Lobster | |
| Abstract: My project is about how water temperature and current affects lobster's reproduction, growth, and life span. I discovered that water temperature affects the lobster's growth. If the water is colder, then the reproduction activity decreases which in turn decreases their reproduction rate. The water current can affect the lobster in their habitat. The current moves the larvae to other places. The larvae tend to drift wherever the current takes them. | |
| School/Teacher: Monterey Highlands Middle School/ Ms. Hua | |
| Class: Seventh Grade Science | Name: Iris Wang and Lisa Isogawa |
| Project Title: The Halibut Experiment | |
| Abstract: Is the halibut population increasing or decreasing? Many marine scientists are puzzled by this question. The marine scientist goes out in the water every day and finds the population of the halibut near the coastal waters. They use an otter trawl, a device used to catch the halibut on the bottom of the ocean. The result the scientist got was that the population of the halibut is decreasing because too many people are catching too many halibuts day by day. In conclusion, halibuts are caught too often, and we should cut down fishermen limits in catching fish. | |
| School/Teacher: Monterey Highlands Middle School/ Ms. Hua | |
| Class: Seventh Grade Science | Name: Jamie Trang |
| Project Title: Surfperches | |
| Abstract: My problem was: what percentage of moisture is on a Surfperch? My hypothesis was that the Surfperch's percent of moisture would be around 50%. There were no materials used in this Science project. The results were to about 60% to 80% according to the percent of moisture of data that I found. As a result, my hypothesis was wrong by only 10%. Since my hypothesis was only wrong by 10%, I never knew that the Surfperch's percentage of moisture can go so high! But since the data I found was not updated since 1994, I predicted that the percent of moisture will go up higher. | |
| School/Teacher: Monterey Highlands Middle School/ Ms. Hua | |
| Class: Seventh Grade Science | Name: Kindra Woo and Nykole Sakihara |
| Project Title: Rock Scallops Report | |
| Abstract: Our objective for this project was to learn where you would find the most rock scallops in different temperatures in water (measuring in Celsius). Our experiment was just collecting data from the days Ms. Hua's class went on a marine science field trip. We took data on which we collected rock scallops, which was only 2 days. For our results, there were not very many days that our boat collected rock scallops. For our conclusion our hypothesis was indeed incorrect. Most of the rock scallops are found in much colder temperatures and are found in deeper oceans. Our final conclusions we made was that the rock scallops are raised and harvested in the east part of North America and the west side is much to warm for rock scallops. | |
| School/Teacher: Monterey Highlands Middle School/ Ms. Hua | |
| Class: Seventh Grade Science | Name: Kortney Sasaki and Azia Genovia |
| Project Title: Marine Science Project | |
| Abstract: The objective of this project was to see if the temperature of the water affects the Tiger shark's travel. Our hypothesis was that it would be affected by warm water but not in a harsh way like if it was in cold water. The method of finding the answer was to take data from other sites on the internet. Our results were that the Tiger shark only lives in tropical waters. In warm water, which they are adapted to, they take their time and travel normally. In cold water the Tiger shark isn't adapted, so they are affected more in means of traveling faster and quicker to get to another tropical water. The Tiger shark can't be patterned in migration or anything. They are individual animals that travel based upon their own needs. They travel around to find prey, migrate to a new place, or to breed. They usually don't travel around for prey because they eat almost anything. Scientists still are working with the Tiger shark and trying to find and answer their many questions. | |
| School/Teacher: Monterey Highlands Middle School/ Ms. Hua | |
| Class: Seventh Grade Science | Name: Adela Campos and Valerie Arca |
| Project Title: Blue Spotted Prawn: When They're Best Found | |
| Abstract: Our goal is to try to discover what month of 2004 could have more blue-spotted prawn in the ocean. The material was the Internet. We found all of our information on the Occidental College and/or the MSE site. The month that that most blue spotted prawn were found was February of 2004. The prawn were mostly found in the harbor area. The results did support the hypothesis. Now we all know that blue spotted prawn are in a variety of places in the ocean. Also, now we know that blue spotted prawn are found almost everywhere. There were more than 500 blue spotted prawn found in 2004. The harbor area was where most prawn were found. | |
| School/Teacher: Monterey Highlands Middle School/ Ms. Hua | |
| Class: Seventh Grade Science | Name: David Wong and Joseph Chow |
| Project Title: The White Croaker Project | |
| Abstract: For my project, my partner and I were to find white croakers. Our question was, how many White Croakers would we find if we traveled twenty meters below sea level? In the Inner Harbor #1 and 2,the east of pier, and the pier 400, we ended up finding 2360 White Croaker fishes at the most. In harbor #1, we were able to find at least 80 White Croakers fishes and in harbor number 2, we were able to find at least 10 White Croakers at the most. These harbors are found in the central coast of California. At the end of my conclusion, if I were to go down 20 meters below the sea, at the most we would find 120 to 150 White Croakers. | |
| School/Teacher: Monterey Highlands Middle School/ Ms. Hua | |
| Class: Seventh Grade Science | Name: Kelly Thai and Raquel Quinonnes |
| Project Title: Rock fish | |
| Abstract: The objective of our experiment is to figure out the if the amount of fish in the water affects the amount of rockfish. First I researched on the harbor and the pier for my information. How we found our information was that first Ms. Hua took us to the marine science field trip. Then we got to look at different fishes and we saw how were many there were. We found nine rockfish. They were mostly found in the harbor. | |
| School/Teacher: Monterey Highlands Middle School/ Ms. Hua | |
| Class: Seventh Grade Science | Name: |
| Project Title: Sculpins | |
| Abstract: My objective is to find out if the number of plankton in the water affects the population of sculpins fish. Our class went on a boat trip on March 9th and collected plankton data and used the otter trawl and caught fish. Out of the data there was only a little amount of plankton. In the months of Januaray, Feburary, and March there were only 11 sculpins found. My hypothesis that the smaller the number of plankton, the fewer sculpins was right. | |
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