Plant Experiment

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5 questions

 Plants absorb water through their root systems. Some 5th-grade students were performing an experiment on the amount of water a plant needs in order to survive. They collected data and placed it in the following table.

 (The amount of growth is shown in centimeters, and centimeters can also be shown with the abbreviation cm. The amount of water is shown in milliliters, and milliliters can also be shown with the abbreviation mL)

What was the total growth of each plant in millimeters? Show your work. Hint: 1 centimeter (cm) has 10 millimeters (mm)

What does the data table show about amount of water and plant growth? Try to summarize it in 1 sentence.

Think about the plant experiment we are doing. How is ours different from the one described in this data table?

Think about the plant experiment we are doing. How is ours similar to the one described in this data table?

Here's some different types of plant experiments. Based on what you see in the data table, which type of experiment do you think those students did? Circle it and put a reason why.