Summary & Conclusion

Pollutants in the air have detrimental effects on humans, plants, and animals. There are a
variety of substances that makes up chemicals on air, including natural chemicals created by
forest fires and volcanoes, stationary chemicals produced by industrial factories and
equipment, and mobile chemicals produced by automobiles on the road. Thus the experiment
aims to acknowledge different suspended particulate matter depending on the sites that has
heavy, moderate, and no vehicular traffics. They made a thread of broad leaves coated with
petroleum jelly hanging on different areas in 2 hours and secured with a polythene bag. After a
brief calculation, the weight of leaves before exposure had increased after 2 hours on different
site. We can clearly conclude that the area that has a heavy vehicular traffics gains a lot of
suspended particulate matter than those two sites, but we should not ignore that even on a
non-vehicular place pollutants still exist. A particulate matter level on where we reside is
necessary because it can be a factor to how people can live longer and put their effort to have
control on the air pollution. Technologies are one of the powerful tool to reduced risk on the
pollutants we are taking for everyday life but still a green and clean community should be a
bottom line to eliminate this threat.

The second experiment focuses on how to test a soil texture using a mason jar. Three layers
of soil is what to consider, we should be able to see the sand, silt, and clay of the soil. Using a
mason jar, water and a detergent soap with the sand are being shake and being observed by 2
days. Approximately, at 60 seconds is
where we should mark the sand
layer, at 2 hours we can now mark
the silt layer, and after a 48 hours we
can now extinguish the clay layer
from it. To calculate percentage you
need to determine the height of the
layers from the base of the jar, sand
is 43mm, silt is 63mm, and clay is
68mm. To calculate sand, take the
height of the sand divided by the
total height of the clay and you could
get 63.2%. To calculate silt, height of
silt minus height of sand divided by
height of clay and it would be 29.4%.
To calculate clay, height of clay minus the height of silt, divided by total height of clay and you
could get 7.4%. After you do the calculation instructed plot the data on usda’s soil pyramid
website and determine the soil texture using a ternary diagram.
Reference:
Amritacreate (2015, December 13) Study of Pollutants in Air - MeitY OLabs retrieved from
https://youtu.be/0YOzhFB4Slo

HarvardX (2018, January 1) Particulate matter air pollution retrieved from

https://youtu.be/wl3BkTE4TEc

Growit Builtit (2020, December 6) Testing Soil Texture - Mason Jar Soil Test retrieved
https://youtu.be/77kQPIx-sIQ

Paul Scott (2020, January 14) How to Read and Plot Soil Texture on a Ternary Diagram retrieved from
https://youtu.be/ejQJg_hNoOo