Science Buddies: "Ask an Expert"

Effect of enviornmental pollutants on land animals in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

Land animals= animals on the surrounding islands or beaches around the watershed like the Delmarva Fox Squirrel.

1. What are the types of enviromental poluntants?
2. What is the most common eniviromental polluntant in the Bay?
3. Do these pollutants affect the land animals in the Bay? How?
4. Which animal is most affected by the polluntants?
5. Does an animal effected by the pollutants affect other animals or people? How?
6 .What are the solutions to stop theese problems?

Thank you for your time.

Hello Mikaylerr,

These are all interesting questions, but none of them is stated in the form of a hypothesis, and many of them would be difficult to test experimentally. Your challenge is to do background research and come up with a hypothesis, or educated guess in answer to a question, and then test that hypothesis experimentally. Some of the questions you posted may be answerable just by doing some background research, and perhaps in so doing you will find a question you can answer experimentally. Let me know how I or others can be of further assistance.

Cheers,
Colin