Experiment+Results+Hot+Desert+Plants

Here is our Experiment Results.

Group Members: Sophia, Kendall, Dain, Kennedy Date: April 5th 2008 For this experiment we’ll look at __Hot Desert Plant Adaptations__ using the SCIENTIFIC METHOD to do our experiment: Does waxed coating help hot desert plants or not survive the heat? We think that the waxed paper will not hold the water in for the cacti. We used 3 sponges, a Ziploc bag, plastic cups, water, scissors and a scale. First, we cut out shapes of cacti on sponges. Then, we wet the pieces of sponge cacti down with water. After that, we weighed each cacti and recorded how much they weighed. We weighed them almost every day for 10 days and recorded their weight. > What happened was at first they all started out as 9 kilograms. The one in the bag gained wait the one in the cup dried out and the one uncovered also dried out. The uncovered one was 3 kilograms the one in the cup was 7 kilograms The on the bag weighed 58 kilograms We think we got these results because the one in the bag had a cover so the moisture could stay in. The uncovered one just got dry because it was left open so the moisture escaped. The one in the cup with water, lost all of it’s water also because of moisture.
 * 1. ****__ PROBLEM: __** What are we trying to find out? Write a question.
 * 2. ****__ HYPOTHESIS: __** What do we think will happen?
 * 3. ****__ MATERIALS: __** We used this equipment for our experiment:
 * 4. ****__ PROCEDURE: __** These are the steps we took to do the experiment:
 * 1) **__ RESULTS: __** This is what happened:
 * 1) **__ DISCUSSION: __** This is why we think we got the results: