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Title
Grow Rye Grow

Broad Question
Do different types of water effect the growth rate of a Rye plant?

Specific Question
Do different types of water ( tap, bottled, distilled, carbonated, river ) effect the growth rate of a plant?

Hypothesis
In my experiment with all the different types of waters; Bottled river, distilled carbonated and tap, tap water will have the fastest growth rate because it has all the minerals a plant needs to grow. Carbonated water will have the second fastest because the carbonation will make it grow fast but it will then stop because it acts as steroids to a plant. The rest of the waters will have a steady growth rate.

Independent Variable:
Types of water like tap water, bottled water, carbonated water, river water and distilled water.

Dependent Variable:
The dependent variable is the growth rate of the Rye plant.

Variables That Need To Be Controlled:
Tap water will be the controlled variable. The amount of soil I put in the cups. The amount of water I water the plants with.

Vocabulary List That Needs Explanation
Dixie cup: Paper cups that have a leak resistant coating. Soil: The top layer of earth where plants grow, a black or dark brown material a lot of times containing a mixture of organic remains. Types of water: The different types of water that I am testing in my experiment. Like; Tap water, Bottle water, distill water, carbonated water and river water. Germinate: To grow or sprout.

General Plan

 * 1) Take identical cups and label them with the correct labels.
 * 2) Fill them with the same amount of soil.
 * 3) Plant the seeds and cover them with a small layer of soil.
 * 4) Water them all withe same amount of water.
 * 5) Put them in the window sill.

Potential Problems And Solutions

 * Problem || Solution ||
 * The rye won't sprout. || I am putting more than one rye seed in one cup. ||
 * Its to cold to grow the rye. || Buy a heating mat. ||
 * There is not enough sunlight. || Buy a planters light. ||

What is your experimental unit?
This is the base unit of your experiment, for example, one plant, one ice cube, one dish. It is the thing you will be measuring.

Number Of Trials:
I will be doing three trials for each type of water.

Number Of Subjects In Each trial:
There will be five different subjects.

Number of Observations:
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 2/29/13 - 3/23/13.

When data will be collected
I will start collecting data 2/23/13 through 3/20/13.

Where will data be collected?:
In Mrs. Groves room. The plants will be on the moving cart that's against the window sill.

Resources and Budget Table

 * Item || Number needed || Where I will get this || Cost ||
 * Dixie cups || 18 || Hannah Fords || $ .00 ||
 * Soil || 1 || Loews || $ 5.30 ||
 * Lake water || 1 gallon || A lake || $ 0.00 ||
 * Tap water || 1 gallon || My house || $ 0.00 ||
 * Datill water || 1 gallon || Hannah Fords || $ 1.45 ||
 * Carbonated water || 1 gallon || Hannah Fords || $ 1.45 ||
 * Bottle water || 1 gallon || Hannah Fords || $ 1.00 ||

Detailed Procedure

 * Take 18 Dixie cups and put 150 ml of soil in each cup.
 * Take the seeds and put one seed in each cup.
 * Cover them with soil.
 * Place each cup on the rolling cart against the window.
 * Poor 25 ml of the type of water per cup.
 * Record the height every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Time Line

 * 1) 1/26/13 - 1/27/13 : Buy and collect all the ingredients.
 * 2) 1/28/13 - 2/2/13 : Bring materials to school and plant the Rye seeds.
 * 3) 2/29/13 - 3/23/13 : Collect data.
 * 4) 2/29/13 - 3/23/13 : Make and print all the graphs and charts.
 * 5) 3/1/13 - 3/22/13 : Work on poster.
 * 6) 3/10/13 - 3/25/13 : Finish wiki page.
 * 7) 3/25/13 - 3/29/13 : Work on presentation of poster.

Conclusion
When I did my experiment I found that Carbonated water grew the fastest, Distilled had the second best growth rate,River water had the third fastest growth rate, Bottled water had the fourth fastest growth rate and Tap water didn't grow at all. When I did my research I learned that the carbonidoxied that was in the carbonation water acted as a steroid to the plants. It made them grow faster and bigger then the rest of the plants. I didn't understand why tap water didn't grow so I dug a little deep and tested the pH levels in all the waters. I found that Tap water had such a high pH level that it killed the seed before it even got to sprout. Distilled water had a stedly fast growth rate compared to Bottled water, which had a slow but mostly constant rate.

Discussing
While I was doing my experiment I notices lots of things. I noticed that carbonated water sprouted first and grew the fastest and most. When I finished the expeiement tap water didn't grow at all.I was a little curiuse why it didn't grow so I tested the pH levels in the waters. I found that the tap water had such a high pH level that it killed the plant off before I could even sprout. when i found that carbonaited water grrew the fastest and the most i wanted to try and understand more of why that happend and what caused that to happen. I found that the carbonbioxid in the carbonaited water acted as a steiroid to the plants and made them grow much bigger then the rest.

Benefit to Community and/or Science
This experiment will benefit the community because people want to know what type of water to water their plants with and get the best result.Knowing what kind of water to use while watering your plants will benefit gardeners and landscapers. Just by knowing what kind of water to use while watering will give them a huge advantage of the other landscapers who don't, because their flowers grow faster and bigger while the other landscapers or gardeners wont. Having the landscapers and gardeners know what kind of water to use while watering to get the best results helps and or benefits the community because their the ones who place all the flowers around town to make it look nice. This science experiment benefits to science because a scientist might want to do a test on plants and they would want to grow the plants quickly. Of course they would want to grow them as fast as possible so they could get as much data in their given time.

Abstract
Its to cold to grow the rye.