Monday, October 3, 2011

Ocmulgee River

We went down to the Ocmulgee River and did four activities. One was measuring the depth of the river, the other was measuring the speed of the river by using a ball, picking up litter, and the fourth, the one I was a part of, was counting clams.

This is my fail of a Google earth image of the river


This is the information we received from measuring the depth of the river.


And here is a sketch of the part of the river where we did all of her activities. 
In the faster current, there were less live clams and also dead clams littered the sand bar where birds had gotten their beaks on them. The sand bank and the shallow and slower water are the places where the most amounts of live clams were found.The clams grew better in the area where they weren't swept away by the current or birds did not eat them because they were just deep enough into the water.



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