Evaporation Experiment

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How does wind affect the rate of evaporation?

Me and my group in Ms. Maguire's classroom did an experiment. In this experiment we tested over five days how much water was left in two styrofoam bowls.

If I place a fan in front of a 100 ML size styrofoam bowl with the wind blowing across the water then, the water will evaporate faster.

This is all the background knowledge I know.

When the water in the 100 ML size bowl is being pushed by the fan.

The water will move in a circular position. Then it will speed up the evaporation process.

I also know that the water that evaporates will turn into a gas. The water that evaporates comes from lakes, rivers, ocean and ECT.

Independent Variable Dependent
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1.Gather all materials such as A fan, 200 ML of water, 1 Graduated cylinder that is 100 ML in size, 2 100 ML size styrofoam bowls.

2.Your first step of this experiment is to pour 100 ML of water in the graduated cylinder

3.Once it is at 100 Ml of water in the Cylinder you pour the water into the 100 ML size styrofoam bowl.

4.Then you do the same thing with the other styrofoam bowl.

5.After you have both bowls full of 100 ML of water you carefully put both of the bowls at the side table

6.With one of the bowls place a fan in front of the bowl.

7.Then you wait until the next day. The next day the water with the fan should have evaporated more than the bowl without the fan.

8.Once you have done that you need to pour one of the bowls into the graduated cylinder to get a measurement of the water.

9. Once you finish you do the same thing with the other bowl.

10.You just keep repeating these steps for the next three days to see the changes and graph the
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I observed the water by the fan moved slowly which made waves. I also saw by the 3rd day their was no water left in the bowl with the fan. The bowl without the fan evaporated slower because it didn't move as much. The bowl without the fan didn’t move so it was boring to watch.

I am going to explain what I did in this experiment.

In this experiment me and my group observed two styrofoam bowls full of water.

One of the bowls was placed next to a fan, and the other bowl just sat on the side table.

We collected data by measuring the amount of water over five days. After three days all the water that was being pushed by the fan was all gone. The bowl without the fan had more than half of the water at the end of the experiment.

These are my results.

On day one of the experiment the water with the fan went down by 23 degrees and the bowl without the fan went down by 10 ML of water. On day two the bowl with the fan went down by 68 ML and the bowl without the fan went down by 21 ML. On day three the bowl with the fan went down by 100 ML of water and the bowl without the fan went down by 41 ML. The last day their was no water in the bowl with the fan and the bowl without the fan went down by 46