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1) The document summarizes a lab report about tracking ocean currents using shoes that spilled into the ocean. Students mapped the path of shoes over time based on location data and compared it to ocean currents. 2) Most shoes encountered the yellow and green currents and traveled north towards Canada, though some went east towards Russia. Shoes traveled faster than rubber ducks due to their heavier weight and higher volume. 3) The report concludes that shoes sank lower in the water than ducks, affecting their path, and that winds and currents pushed shoes in different directions (north or south). Throwing trash overboard was deemed unsafe due to potential harm to sea life and pollution.

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Highways of The Sea Lab Report 2020: Click Here and Download The Map For Editing

1) The document summarizes a lab report about tracking ocean currents using shoes that spilled into the ocean. Students mapped the path of shoes over time based on location data and compared it to ocean currents. 2) Most shoes encountered the yellow and green currents and traveled north towards Canada, though some went east towards Russia. Shoes traveled faster than rubber ducks due to their heavier weight and higher volume. 3) The report concludes that shoes sank lower in the water than ducks, affecting their path, and that winds and currents pushed shoes in different directions (north or south). Throwing trash overboard was deemed unsafe due to potential harm to sea life and pollution.

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Highways of the Sea Lab Report 2020

Instructions: In the Highways of the Sea Lab, you will chart the traveling shoes and predict how ocean
currents move. Record your findings below. You will submit your completed lab report.

(30 points possible)

Name and Title: Jacob sarmeinto, Elisabeth jacobi, Highways of the sea lad report
Include your name, teacher’s name, date, and name of lab.

Objective(s):
What was the main purpose of the lab? We are seeing how to predict how oceans move and the
current of it

Hypothesis: (2 points)
This should be a prediction that can be tested. You should use the if/then format to write your
hypothesis. I think we will see something like the storms and how the temperature moves
around the ocean making it go in different directions

Procedure: (8 points)
On the map below, locate and mark the locations of shoes provided in the data table. You may
print your map and mark it by hand or copy it to a program to edit. Label each data point in
chronological order from 1 to 11 on the map, and connect the data points with arrows.

Data: Click here and download the map for editing


Conclusion: (20 points)
1. Define the following terms: (2 points)
a. Current They are created by the gravity, the density of the water, temperature
and the wind
b. Gyre they are caused by global wind patterns, the earths rotation

2. Using the map and the data points, what can you conclude about the general pathway
the shoes took? (2 points) They seemed to go to Canada a lot and some went towards Russia or near

3. Compare the pathway of the shoes to the map showing the major surface currents in the
Pacific. Which current(s) did the shoes most likely encounter? Most of them encounter
each other but some of them were left alone but the currents read yellow green
they pretty much encounter each other
4. above. (2 points)

5. Which data point is an outlier? What may have happened to this batch of shoes? (2
points) The blue point is an outliner being away from the rest of them and may affect the batch very to little

6. How fast did the shoes travel? (4 points) Click here for help calculating
a. From where the shoes spilled (48°N, 161°W) to where they first made landfall
(49°N, 126°W), how many kilometers did they travel? How many days did they
take to travel that distance? (You can use November 30 as the date found). What
was their rate of travel in kilometers per hour? It went 1380mph
b. From where the shoes spilled (48°N, 161°W) to where they were found in 1996
(54°N, 133°W), how many kilometers did they travel? How many days did they
take to travel that distance (use April 30 as the date found)? What was their rate
of travel in kilometers per hour? It went 1108 mph

7. The shoes traveled faster than the rubber ducks and bath toys. Propose a hypothesis to
explain why the shoes traveled faster, and develop a plan to test your prediction. It is
because shoes are heavier and will spin at a point where it looks like it won’t move fast but carries a lot of
volume which allows it to move faster

8. The shoes floated low in the water, while the ducks floated high in the water. How could
this fact have changed the course and speed of both the shoes and the ducks? (2 points)
Again it comes to volume the shoe has more volume and its dense which makes it sink while the rubber
duck has less volume and the shape of it

9. Give a possible explanation why some shoes drifted northward along the coast while
others drifted southward. (2 points) it drifted in different directions because of the current and the wind
making them go to different areas

10. Your friend has invited you onto her family’s boat for a day of fishing. After lunch on the
boat, your friend wants to throw a bag of trash overboard. After researching the impact
currents have on objects, explain what you would do in this situation and why. (2 points) I
would tell him not to because it can harm the sea creatures like fish something from the trash might get
caught up on the fish which can kill it and it can cause pollution to the life down there making it die

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