CS 152 Spring 2003 Assignment
2 – Microsoft Word Basics 10 points
Assigned: 1/29/03
Due: 02/17/03 - At start of the class period. The due date is so far away because I am treating this as somewhat of a pre-test. If people complete it fairly easily it means that I don’t have to talk about these things in class (or can talk individually with somebody who needs help). But if there are things that many people don’t know, it gives me an opportunity to talk about them in class before this is due.
Assignment:
Using Microsoft Word, create the document shown on the attached two pages. Print it. Turn in the disk and the printed copy.
Details:
1) Change the margins to 1.0 inches on top, bottom, left and right.
2) The title lines are 18 point, Bold, Centered, “Arial” font.
3) The horizontal dividing line is drawn.
4) The subtitle is 14 point, Bold, Centered, “Arial” font.
5) The rest of the document is 12 point , Align Left, “Times New Roman,” except where specified otherwise.
6) Footnotes on title and author must be created using Word’s footnote capabilities.
7) Paragraphs after the first one are formatted so that the first line has a half-inch indentation.
8) The first time the word “trophic” appears it should be italicized.
9) All isotopes (e.g. 13C, 15N, etc) are written with the number at superscript level.
10) The figure can be obtained from my WWW page under Assignments. It should have a caption – created using Microsoft Word’s Insert Caption capabilities, and grouped with the figure. It should have text wrapping around it (“Square”), so that text can be seen next to the figure.
11) After the figure, there should be a “hard” or “manual” page break, forcing the next paragraph to start on the next page.
12) Page footer should contain the data and time on the left, and page “of” total pages on the right.
13) The text with the bullets must be bulleted. The bullets do not have to be the same kind of bullet as mine.
14) Put your name in place of the characters “YOUR NAME HERE”. Underline your name.
15) “Microsoft Word” is bold and italicized.
16) The Table should be formatted as shown, and captioned above using Microsoft Word’s Insert Caption capabilities..
17) The last paragraph in the document should be double-spaced.
18) The reference header should be 14 point, bold.
19) References should be 10 point font. They should be formatted so that any lines after the first are “hanging” in by 0.5 inch. The paragraphs should have 6 pt spacing after each paragraph (reference entry). The journal names should be italicized as shown.
20) Don’t leave any misspellings in the document.
The WWW version of this assignment is not precise as to formatting due to limitations in turning Word into html. Please see the paper copy of the assignment.
Everglades
Water Quality Data[1]
Data
Report
Tracing
Food Web Relations and Fish Migratory Habits in the Everglades with Stable
Isotope Techniques
Carol Kendall, Cecily Chang,
Robert Dias, Daniel Steinitz, Erika Wise[2]
How
can isotopes be used to determine food sources and predator-prey relations?
The traditional method of food web investigation focused on the determination of gut contents (literally, "who ate what"), and is still used today. More recently, stable carbon, nitrogen and sulfur isotope analyses of plants and animals have been used to establish relative trophic (predator) levels among various organisms because at each ascending trophic level (from prey to predator), there is an increase in the carbon-13 content (13C/12C ratio) and nitrogen-15 content (15N/14N ratio) of the organism due to selective metabolic loss of carbon-12 (12C) and nitrogen-14 (14N) during food assimilation. Thus, an organism is typically enriched in 13C and 15N relative to its diet by 1 to 3 parts-per-thousand. In other words, "you are what you eat plus a little bit". This is illustrated in figure 1. There appears to be little or no enrichment in sulfur-34 (34S) with increasing trophic level.
The 15N content (15N/14N ratio) can be used to test the diet estimates determined by gut contents analysis, since the 15N content directly reflects the what the fish actually digest, not what they might have in their stomachs when caught. In particular, 15N analysis suggests that although algae often is a major component of the stomach content of fish, it is only a minor component of what is actually digested, as suggested by the large differences in the 15N content in algae compared to fish (as shown). This is an important difference since the meHg content of algae can be high in some environments.
The rest of this article discusses:
· The nitrogen isotopic compositions
· The carbon isotopic compositions
· Everglades Agricultural Area
· Trophic relations among consumers
This has been typed by YOUR NAME HERE to demonstrate basic word processing skills using Microsoft Word. Information about projects being carried out is shown in Table 1.
Table 1. Current Projects
|
Chief |
Project |
Project |
|
Brewster-Wingard, L. |
Ecosystem History of Florida Bay |
2001 |
|
Cronin, T.M. |
FL Cooperative Mapping |
|
|
DeAngelis, D. Gross, L. Johnston, J. Martucci, A. Pearlstine, L. |
ATLSS |
2001 |
|
Ishman, S. |
Ecosystem History of Biscayne Bay and the Southeast Coast |
2001 |
The references give more information on the subject. But first, just for fun, lets have one paragraph double-spaced. Did you know that there are over 100,000 million Internet host nodes? And some have serious research such as this, while others are devoted to MTV’s Clone High? (http://www.mtv.com/onair/clone_high). I thought you did.
References
Cox,T., N. Simon, and L.
Newland, Copper, lead, mercury, and zinc in periphyton of the South Florida
Ecosystem, Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry, 1999, v. 70, p.
259-274
Crandall, C.A., Katz, B.G., and Hirten, J.J., , Hydrochemical evidence
for mixing of river water and groundwater during high-flow conditions, lower
Suwannee River basin, Florida, USA: Springer-Verlag, Hydrogeology Journal
1999 v. 7, no. 5, p. 454-467.
Simon, N.S., R.J. Spencer, and T. Cox, Distribution of and relation among mercury and methylmercury, organic carbon, carbonate, nitrogen and phosphorus, in periphyton of the South Florida Ecosystem, Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry, 1999, v. 69, p. 417-433