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super cool savage seeds

Project by group dmsgrayspring2021

Explore plant cells need water, sunlight, and CO2 to live and grow, they also need to do photosynthesis to make food, and cellular respiration to make energy, they need DNA, they need to adapt to changes, and they need to be able to reproduce, and they need to germanate to start growing.
Research Question our question is that when you add pressure to the seed how will it affect its growth.
Predictions I think that the more pressure applied to the seed the less it will grow.
Experimental Design What we mean by pressure is we will have 3 plants and one with 100g and one with 50g and one with no weight on top, we will put the bottom of the petrie dish as the lid so the weight has an impact on the seed.
Conclusion Claim: as the pressure applied to the weight increases(0g, 50g, 100g), the faster it will germinate, but after germination, the weighted seeds will start to die. Evidence: on day one, no plants had sprouted, but by the second day 3 plants had started the germination process, they were in the dish with 100g on top, and the next day, there were 7 starting the germination process, all of the weighted ones(100g and 50g) had sprouted but only one of the no weights had, on the last day they had all sprouted, but the weighted plants started to die off.  Reasoning: pressure will help shorten the germination process, and improve the rate of growth. But if the plant has too much pressure from the dirt or just any atmospheric pressure, and the plant can´t reach the surface, it will die off. This is why you should not plant plants too deep in the soil. This definitely challenges my prior knowledge, because I thought that it would not be good for the plants, but then i thought about it and remembered that all plants are grown in dirt, which is basically natural pressure.  this is the explination we had in our final lab report, is there anything I should change?
Investigation Theme WOS
Teacher Name Evelyn Gray
School Name DeWitt Middle School
Session Spring 2021

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