MOISTURE + ORGANIC TEST: - SOIL TEST 1 - WRONG
Today during period 6, I began and conducted my first test with the soil i had sampled at Centennial Park on the 3rd of May 2009
- I gathered my required equipment that i needed for the first test which was "Moisture Content" for soil. Equipment needed were the following; 5 evaporating basins, electronic scale, dish spoon and an incubator.
- I then weighed each evaporating dish on the electronic scale in order to accurately find the weight of the evaporating dish.
- I then added a soil sample from each of the 5 areas into each of the evaporating dishes. After doing this, I re-weighed.
- By difference, I then calculated the mass of the soil sample by subtracting the mass of the evaporating dish by the mass of the evaporating dish with the soil.
- After doing this, I then placed it in the Incubator at 60 degrees at approxmately 3:04pm, results will then be recorded the day after (leaving it for 24 hours altogether) - this test will then result in which basin of soil has lost the most water by the process of evaporation.
- After 2 days, I took it out of the incubator (taking it out on the 6/5/09 at 8:12am). I decided it to leave it for at least 2 days, just so I could get reliable results. I then weighed each basin using the electronic scale. Results below are shown;
results shown below;
Basin Number: 1
Weight of basin (g): 47.85
Weight of basin with soil (g): 77.86
Mass of soil (g): 30.01
Mass of basin with soil after out of incubator (g): 73.91
Basin Number: 2
Weight of basin (g): 40.49
Weight of basin with soil (g): 74.33
Mass of soil (g): 33.84
Mass of basin with soil after out of incubator (g): 72.12
Basin Number: 3
Weight of basin (g): 38.44
Weight of basin with soil (g): 76.37
Mass of soil (g): 37.93
Mass of basin with soil after out of incubator (g): 64.01
Basin Number: 4
Weight of basin (g): 52.66
Weight of basin with soil (g): 116.41
Mass of soil (g): 63.75
Mass of basin with soil after out of incubator (g): 102.64
Basin Number: 5
Weight of basin(g): 41.79
Weight of basin with soil (g): 64.43
Mass of soil (g): 22.64
Mass of basin with soil after out of incubator (g): 62.82
this is a good summary of your method. But please write it in step form when you do your final report.
ReplyDeleteto save yourself some time, why don't you record your results in table form in here so when the time comes for your report writing you can just copy and paste? the same goes for your methods, if you do them in step form now you don't have to re-do them in the report. Just an idea...