One of our AWESOME SCIENTIST in the YELLOW GROUP found an article about SEA TURTLES and light pollution. According to National Geographic the bright lights from street lights, parking lots, and buildings can disorientate the female sea turtles and they will not lay their eggs. If the female sea turtles lays eggs and they hatch, the baby turtles have a hard time finding the ocean because of all the artificial light. Light pollution is decreasing the sea turtle population! We must save the turtles! The Sea Turtle Protection Agency has a plan! According to the article " A program to darken the coastline of Sarasota County in central Florida, an area with the highest turtle nest density on the Gulf of Mexico, has substantially brightened the prospects for the sea turtle population -- without sacrificing the safety or security of human residents." (National Geographic) So now at night, they turn off the lights near the beaches!
Question: Could we design an experiment to see if it is helping? What would we measure? How could we measure it? What is your hypothesis? Leave me a comment and remember to only use your initials and color group.
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Click on the link below to watch a video and learn more about sea turtles at National Geographic
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/leatherback-sea-turtle/
8 comments:
Mrs zwhar yes i think we can
Mrs zwhr the 1st comment was from red es. Have a good rest of the day.;-)
I think when you give less light there would be more turtles so we could count them. If the turtle population gets bigger than darker beaches was helping. BR yellow
I think that is very sad and we should have less light not only will people sleep better to.
the one at 6:02 was GS-yellowgirl
the lights and loud noises scare them off
plus just because the turtles lay alot of eggs does not mean that they all survive , predators such as , egg eaters will eat the baby turtles before
they ever get to be on their own....
Green,RD<3
the sea turtles are going endangerd becuase the light and sound scare them and they will DIEEEE and become endangerd
bb blue said that about how they become endangerd
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