 | Project title | Removing oil spills with Elodea   |
| Difficulty Level | Middle school | |
| Project page | Click here to view this science project | |
Description | ||
| Can the Elodea save our environment? Do Elodea plants help solve oil spill problems? If so, it would be a very cost effective, convenient, and natural way of keeping our environment clean. This science fair project was performed to determine if the Elodea plant can be used to remove oil spills in water. The experiment was done with gasoline, engine oil, corn oil and kerosene. | ||
Instructions preview | ||
| 1. For this science fair project, the independent variable is the type of oil covering the surface of the water i.e. gasoline, engine oil, corn oil or kerosene. The dependent variable is the reduction in the amount of oil in the measuring cylinder after 7 days. This is determined by measuring the level of oil remaining in the cylinder after 7 days. The constants (control variables) are the size of the Elodea plant, the size of the measurement cylinder, the amount of water and the amount of sunlight. 2. The 5 measuring cylinders are labeled as “none”, “gasoline”, “engine ..... | ||
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