Monday, September 23, 2013

Pollution Index Chart


            A pollution index card is made to tell the organic pollution levels in the algae you are testing. The chart can also be useful to detect the quality of the water. The benefits are that it can show if certain types of algae would be able to deal in different areas of water and how they react to pollute water. Also, it isn’t very hard to perform and it’s cheap. Some shortcomings are the fact that it doesn’t contain all the different types of algae; therefore pollution levels might be slightly off. In addition, it is not the most correct values and often need a microscope. The pollution index chart is not a definitive test for water quality because it is not all that accurate of tests. The higher the organic pollution, the lower the diversity. Pollute water has high populations that cause low diversity, so the higher you go up the less diversity there will be. 

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