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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Lab #11 – The Celery Experiment

Lab #11 – The Celery Experiment

Problem

How does a plant get water from its roots to its leaves?

Hypothesis 




Materials
Celery
Celery seeds
Food coloring
Water
Plastic cup
Scissors
Ruler
Hand lens

  
Procedure

1.          Make observations of your celery seeds in the Results.
2.          Make observations of your celery stalk in the Results.
3.          Cut about 2.5 cm off the bottom of the celery stalk and make observations on the celery stalk’s cross section.
4.          Fill up a plastic cup with 250 ml of water and add two drops of food coloring.  Put your celery stalk, cross section down and leaves up, into the cup of colored water. 
5.          Make observations on your celery stalk experiment.  Make sure to include color and other details such as height, number of leaves, width of cross section, etc.


Results
 A. 
Observations on the celery seed
Observations on the celery seed 10X




Observations on the celery stalk
Observations on the celery stalk 10X




Observations on the celery stalk’s cross section
Observations on the celery stalk’s cross section 10X




Observations on the celery stalk in colored water
Observations on the celery stalk in colored water 10X



B. 

Observations on the celery stalk
10X




Observations on the celery stalk’s cross section
10X



  
Analysis
1) What happened to your celery stalk overnight?
  
2) How do you know that the water reached the top of the plant (celery stalk)? 

3) Look for small circles at the bottom of the stalk that are the color of the food coloring you used. (These circles are xylem, the tubes that carry water up the plant.) Draw pictures and make observations about the xylem in your celery.
4) What evidence do you have that celery is an organism?  Give 5 different points of evidence.  

Conclusion