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    This document describes a simple at-home lab experiment using Skittles to demonstrate the effects of coral bleaching. The lab shows that when warm water is added to a plate of Skittles, it represents how ocean acidification causes zooxanthellae, small creatures that help coral grow and provide color, to leave the coral, making it weak, frail, and colorless. The instructions have participants place Skittles around the edge of a plate, fill it with warm water, and observe the Skittles for 8 minutes to see the zooxanthellae depart, similarly to how acidification impacts real coral.

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    This document describes a simple at-home lab experiment using Skittles to demonstrate the effects of coral bleaching. The lab shows that when warm water is added to a plate of Skittles, it represents how ocean acidification causes zooxanthellae, small creatures that help coral grow and provide color, to leave the coral, making it weak, frail, and colorless. The instructions have participants place Skittles around the edge of a plate, fill it with warm water, and observe the Skittles for 8 minutes to see the zooxanthellae depart, similarly to how acidification impacts real coral.

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    This document describes a simple at-home lab experiment using Skittles to demonstrate the effects of coral bleaching. The lab shows that when warm water is added to a plate of Skittles, it represents how ocean acidification causes zooxanthellae, small creatures that help coral grow and provide color, to leave the coral, making it weak, frail, and colorless. The instructions have participants place Skittles around the edge of a plate, fill it with warm water, and observe the Skittles for 8 minutes to see the zooxanthellae depart, similarly to how acidification impacts real coral.

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    Skittles Lab

    Coral Bleaching
    What is this?
    This lab shows the effects of coral bleaching through a fun little activity that can be performed at
    home with a simple set of items listed below.

    What is Ocean Acidification?


    It is when CO2 (a type of gas that is like the smoke that comes out of cars) store up in the
    atmosphere and then the ocean absorbs it. When the ocean absorbs it, it hurts the ocean and the
    creatures and coral in it.

    What you will need:


    - A plate
    - Warm water
    - Skittles

    Instructions:
    1. Place the skittles on outer edges of plate.
    2. Fill the plate with warm water till it reaches the skittles.
    3. Watch the skittles for 8 minutes.
    4. Congrats! Youre finished!

    What were your results:


    What this shows is the effect of coral bleaching and ocean acidification affects it. There are small
    creatures called: zooxanthellae, and they live on the coral to help it grow and protect it. This lab
    shows that the zooxanthellae will leave the coral because of ocean acidification and leaving the
    coral to become weak, frail, and colorless looking.

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