Bio Practical: soil analysis & quadrat sampling

This year end so called holiday of mine is full with extra classes, practicals and tuitions. I still have to go to school and to tuition just like normal days.....=.= Well, the first day of my bio practical, we (me, see ying, yun yih, mei yee and violet) did the soil analysis of 3 types os soil which were sand, clay and soil. This is our sample...




Nice leh, the colour I mean...
Then, we test on the pH value of our soils.



The colour for soil was like the green tea colour for the first day, but dunno what happened, it became yellow color the next morning...Then, we supposed to heat our soils in the oven for 24 hours with a temperature at 110 degree celcius. So, the next day we went to collect our soils from the oven, but the petri dishes were cold, and the temperature indicated was 29 degree celcius...You know what? It's because the brilliant teacher didn't adjust the temperature...BOOM!!! One day wasted....

Later on, we test on the water content of our soils, and these were our sample...

Milo, black sesame and milk

After that, we heat our soils for an hour to dry it and this step really took us a long time to complete...Then, we have to see the microorganisms and insects present in our soils through a microscope. Well, we found amoeba and many weird weird things which we duno whether is it a microorganism in my organic soil hehehehe....Below is the funnel we used for aquatic microorganisms. The water just won't stop leaking and we have to fix it for the school lab...=.=

This is the funnel for land microorganisms

As for quadrat sampling, we went to Taman Rakyat to complete the task. We found a strategic place where we found more than 10 plants, but there got a lot of big big red ants too...Well, al last we managed to complete counting in 2 hours hehehe...