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