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Maya Gilkison –Mustangs Ahead
(LAKEWOOD RANCH, FL)- Last week in Lakewood Ranch High School (LRHS) Tana Phelps’ Advanced Placement (AP) Environmental Science classes bubbles were “babies” and students were “parents.”
Mustangs performed a lab to visually comprehend the role parental care can help with the survival of mammal babies.
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During the first round of bubbles the “parents” didn’t interfere with the bubbles at all. This led to the age of the bubble babies to average around 5.70 seconds.
In the second round of bubbles the “parents” were allowed to interact with the bubbles by trying to keep them in the air as long as possible.
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They did this by using their hands or mouth to blow the bubbles up away from the ground, preventing them from popping. This allowed the average age of the “babies” to be around 13.76 seconds.
At the third-round mustangs had to blow the bubbles through a circle created with group members’ arms to add an extra stressor to the “babies” life. If the bubble babies did not cross the line, they “died” at one second. The average life span on these “babies” where 2.55 seconds.
Junior Ashley Crane said “it gives me a visual with what’s going on in the ecosystem, so we can see how it affects the population going up and down.”
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