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How will sea levels affect Materials

TIGERS?
• cake pan
• 250 mL water
• 12 ice cubes
Conservation biologists study how changing environments affect
• ruler
specific kinds of animals. What will happen to tigers that live near the
• beaker
sea if ice in the regions around Earth’s poles melt?
• safety goggles
Suggested materials
Procedure • soil
• leaves
 1. Predict how a rising sea level might affect tigers that live • sticks
near the sea. • rocks
• spoon

Wear safety
goggles.

Science Practice
 2. Design a model in the cake pan to investigate your prediction. Scientists use models to
Choose materials to model the land. Show your plan to your make arguments about
teacher before you begin. cause and effect.
 3. Add the water and ice. Measure the land from the end of the
pan to the edge of the water. Record your data.
 4. Allow the ice to melt. Measure the amount of land to the edge
of the water again.
How much land is
Analyze and Interpret Data there?

5. CCC Cause and Effect Use your data to Before the ice

melted
explain how a rising sea level would affect the
tigers living near the sea. After the ice
melted

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