Glenn+and+Selena's+Water+Amounts

Hey this is our page! We are manipulating the amounts of water in the plant's!!!

** __Plant Investigation__ ** __The Problem:__ How do plants respond to different amounts of water? __The task__ : The rate of plant growth is affected by how the plants needs are being met. Plants need the following in order to grow: air, nutrients, water, light, and space. How will plant growth change if you alter the conditions it grows in? 1. Choose a variable to investigate. 2. Determine your manipulated, responding, and controlled variables for your experiment. 3. Plant 4-5 of the same kind of seed in different containers. Use a couple of the trials as your ‘control’ group (under normal conditions) and a couple of trials as your ‘manipulated’ group. 4. Observe the plants over a period of weeks. Record your observations every 2nd day. __Selena’s Hypothesis:__ I think that the plant with the ¼ cup of water will grow best. This is because it is not being deprived of water, and we are not giving it too much. If you give a plant too much water I think it will drown. So I also think the one with a ½ cup it will be too much. If you give it not enough water, it won’t grow very much. It will not have enough water for cellular respiration and it will not have enough for photosynthesis. That’s why think the 3 tablespoons of water will be deprived. __Glenn’s Hypothesis:__ I think that the plants that have a resembled amount of water will grow better then the ones with more or less amounts of water because the plant with more water will most likely drown and the one with the small amounts of water will wither and die. __Procedure:__

__1.__ Get pots and fill them up to the same level of 8 cm. 2.  Plant the cucumber seeds 3.5 cm deep 3. Water the plants every 2 days, according to the measurements above. 4. Record on chart the data 5. Conclude on the results

__Materials:__ ·  Measuring Cups/ table spoon · 6 Pots · Soil · Water · 6 Seeds (cucumber)

__Variables:__ a. Manipulated: The amounts of water ( 1tbs, ¼ c, ½ c) b.  Responding: Some are going to grow faster than the rest, Some are going to grow taller than the rest, c.  Controlled: Where the plants are being kept, the amount of light they will get, how often we water the plants, how much we water the plants,

__Observations/Logbook:__

Plants || Oct 2, 09 || 0cm || 0cm || 0cm || 0cm || 0cm || 0cm || Oct 5, 09 || 0cm || 0cm || 0cm || 0cm || 0cm || 0cm || Oct 8, 09 || 0cm || 0cm || 0cm || 0cm || 0cm || 0cm || Oct 19, 09 || 0cm || 0cm || 0cm || 9.8/9cm || 0cm || 0cm || Oct 27,09 || 0cm || 0cm || 0cm || 10/8.5cm || 0cm || 0cm || Nov 2, 09 || 0cm || 0cm || 0cm || 9.5/8cm || 0cm || 0cm || Nov 5, 09 || 0cm || 0cm || 0cm || 7/6cm || 0cm || 0cm || Nov13, 09 || 0cm || 0cm || 0cm || Both plants broke || 0cm || 0cm ||
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__Day 1: Date: October 2, 2009(Glenn)__ Selena wasn’t here for this day, so Glenn planted the plants. SOON WILL BE UPDATED!

__Day 2: Date: 5 October, 2009(Selena)__ None of the plants have started growing to the visible point of the eye. We watered all of the plants with the correct measurements. Unfortunately the ½ cup of water plant was too wet to add water, so we couldn’t add any water yet.

Growth:

Height: (1,0cm 0cm) (2,0cm 0cm)(3,0cm 0cm)(4,0cm 0cm)(5,0cm 0cm)(6,0cm 0cm)

__Day 3: Date:October 8,(Selena)__

Yesterday we went to the Glenbow Museum and we forgot to water the plants so we watered them today.

None of them have yet grown. Plant 5 and 6 look like they have drowned, as the soil is very moist (liquid) compared to the other ones. Plants 3 and 4 look liked they are a little deprived of water, as the soil is almost completely dry. Plants 1 and 2 look like they are doing well as they are not really dry and not really moist. Height: (1,0cm 0cm) (2,0cm 0cm)(3,0cm 0cm)(4,0cm 0cm)(5,0cm 0cm)(6,0cm 0cm)

__ Day 4: Date: on break __ __Day 5: Date:__ on break __ Day 6: Date: on break __ __Day 7: Date:__ on break __Day 8: Date:__ on break __Day 9: Date: October.19__

Height: (1,0cm 0cm) (2,0cm 0cm)(3,0cm 0cm)(4,9.8cm 9cm)(5,0cm 0cm)(6,0cm 0cm)

__Day 11: Date: October. 21 (Selena)__ Plants were watered today and the one plant that has started growing doesn't look like it has changed much. It looks the same, except I think I might be able to see another little stem popping up. Although I am not quite sure, I will have to wait and see. (Didn't take height measurements today)

__Day 13: Date: October. 23 (Glenn and Selena)__ We had no school today as it was a PD Day and so we couldn't water the plants and they were left over the 3 day weekend. We returned Monday. This shouldn't manipulate the test results because none of them were watered over this period of time.

__Day 15: Date: October. 25__

Unfortunately I dont think we ended up water the plants or recording any data, which is a human mistake and might change our results as by this time I think the plants could be deprived from water. Especially the plant that is only getting 1 tbs of water every 2 days.

__ Day 17: Date: October. 27__ __(Glenn and Selena)__ Only plant # 4 has grown so far, but it is wilting none of the other plants have grown yet I think that plant #3 and plant #4 are going to die or are dead already.

The plant that has started growing to me looks okay, and it seems in much better condition than any others. This I think is because it has actually started growing and Glenn and I think that we have drowned the other plants. This is not good, and we hope that in the end if they did end up drowning that we can learn a lesson from that and conclude something positive. Although we do not like the fact we may have killed the seeds it might teach a lesson to others so that they don't drown their plants, and in the end actually might save more plants this way.

Height: (1,0cm 0cm) (2,0cm 0cm)(3,0cm 0cm)(4,10cm 8.5cm)(5,0cm 0cm)(6,0cm 0cm)

Day 21: November 2, 2009:

All the plants look dead right now. I think the one that has grown has died. Plant #4 the one that has grown looks shriveled and laying on the soil. If it is dead the final height of the plant is. There were two different stems coming out of the ground of plant #4 and they both look dead.

The final height of plant #4 (9.5 cm for one stem, 8 cm for the other). All other plants have grown 0 cm.

Day 24: November 5, 2009:

Unfortunately none of the plants have started growing except for plant #4. Plant #4 has died, it looks shriveled and it's color has gone from lime green to mint green. I have tried to help this plant start growing but this hasn't happened. The plants that get a half a cup every two days haven't grown, I think that this is because they have drowned. The soil in these plants looks very moist. So moist that when I tried to water them yesterday they wouldn't take all the water. I had to stop because the soil was almost overflowing out of the cups. This wouldn't have been good, so I had to stop watering the plant. On the other hand, one of the plants that only gets 1 tablespoon every 2 days has the soil almost completely dry. This plant looks like it is not getting enough nutrients. - Glenn 6 cm, 7 cm

Day 24: November 13: My partner watered the plants the plants that grow have died. The plants with 1/2 a cup of water in it are very wet and are about two or three cm away from the top. The plants with 1/4 of a cup are not as full as the ones with the 1/2 cups of water but are still really full. The plants with one TBSP are really dry and the one that grow is dead all dried up.