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The organism I have chosen to study is the leaves on the trees in my study area. While at my study area I was observing the environment around me trying to decide what to study. I looked on the ground and noticed that the leaves had begun to fall recently. I studied the leaves on the ground and in the trees. I noticed that the leaves had a white substance on them, presumably fungus or mould. I am going to study the leaves from the different trees in all the areas of the park to see whether the leaves’ placement has an affect on if and how much of the white substance is on the leaves. My hypothesis is that the placement of the leaves has an affect on whether the leaves will have the substance and will also affect the amount of substance. I postulate that the leaves still in the trees will have less of the substance than the leaves on the ground. Some continuous variables could be the amount of moisture the leaves are exposed to, amount of sunlight exposed to and temperature; some categorical variables are species of tree, the size of leave, thickness of leaf, colour of leaf, and other organisms around the leaves. 
