A.

Aim Question
Water quality, known as the physical, biological, chemical and
radiological characteristics of water, its condition can greatly affect the
health of living organisms in it. It can be measure by different methods
such as using machine or biological indicators. Biological indicators,
refers to the organisms that are sensitive to the presence of pollutants
in a specific environment. For aquatic environment, an organism that is
commonly used to measure the water quality is Artemia (Brine
Shrimp), it is a typical primitive arthropod that is very tiny and lives in
salt-water lakes.
During this experiment, we are going to use the biological indicators--Artemia to measure the relative water quality. We are going to measure
the relative water quality of three sources of water, tap water, canal
water and bottle water. For each water source, we are going to add
0.03g salts per milliliter in to the water in order to provide a salinity
aquatic environment for Artemia. For each water source, we will
measure both of the growth and hatching rate of Artemia in it, there
will be two days for hatching rate and two days for growth rate.

B. Hypothesis
I predict the hatching rate of artemias in each type of water should be
same, since all the water sources have the same salt concentration.
I predict the amount of artemias that survive in 2 days will be highest
in canal water. Since the canal water that we used were already been
boiled, so that the small bacteria or other tiny planktons will become
dead in canal water. Thus, their bodies can existed as food in canal
water for artemia that lives in it. As a result, there will be more
artemias have chances to survive in canal water. In the meantime,
nature artemia living in river, so that canal water is very suitable for
the growth of artemias
I predict the amount of artemias that survive in 2 days will be least in
bottle water. Since bottle water is the drinking water for people, so
there wont be many bacteria and other tiny planktons lived in it. Thus,
bottle water cant provide food for artemias.