Water is important for every living thing. Plants use water, humans bodies are 70% water. Every living thing needs water. Plants are different though, nat all of the water taken in by plants stay there. Water can be transpired, at night the chances for water to be transpired by plants are less than the chances of being transpired during the day. water that is transpired is large part of the water the atmosphere. In this experiment we were testing which organic material has the greatest percentage of water. My hypothesis was that out of the three materials we were testing grapes; carrots and spinach leaves, grapes would have the greatest percentage of water due to the fact that grapes had a lot more liquid that disbursed in your mount when you
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The carrot you only need a small piece of while the grapes you will need two to three and a handful of spinach leaves. Next you will need a triple beam balance to measure the mass of the items, a knife to cut the items and a large paper towel. Once you have all the materials you can begin the experiment.First make a table five by four table to record your data. Have four columns for the mass on the first day, mass on the third day, the difference between the two and the percentage of water found. Then three rows for the carrots data, the grapes data and the spinach leaves data. Then you must measure the mass of the spinach, the carrot and the grapes on the triple beam balance. Start to cut the items into semi equal pieces. The spinach leaves should be cut into thin stripes. The carrot should be cut into equal pieces and the grapes should be cut in half three times. Place the items onto the paper towel and leave alone for three days then record the mass of each and fill in the rest of your …show more content…
However the test clearly shows that the spinach leaves had 90% water compared to the grapes at 75% and the carrot with 83%. I believe that the reason the spinach leaves had more water in it than any of the others because of the veins within the leaves. Some factors that made have distorted the results in that the fact the all of the pieces were not exactly the same and it could have allowed more water to release out of one than the other. If the cuts were all exactly the same the results could be more
The carrot you only need a small piece of while the grapes you will need two to three and a handful of spinach leaves. Next you will need a triple beam balance to measure the mass of the items, a knife to cut the items and a large paper towel. Once you have all the materials you can begin the experiment.First make a table five by four table to record your data. Have four columns for the mass on the first day, mass on the third day, the difference between the two and the percentage of water found. Then three rows for the carrots data, the grapes data and the spinach leaves data. Then you must measure the mass of the spinach, the carrot and the grapes on the triple beam balance. Start to cut the items into semi equal pieces. The spinach leaves should be cut into thin stripes. The carrot should be cut into equal pieces and the grapes should be cut in half three times. Place the items onto the paper towel and leave alone for three days then record the mass of each and fill in the rest of your …show more content…
However the test clearly shows that the spinach leaves had 90% water compared to the grapes at 75% and the carrot with 83%. I believe that the reason the spinach leaves had more water in it than any of the others because of the veins within the leaves. Some factors that made have distorted the results in that the fact the all of the pieces were not exactly the same and it could have allowed more water to release out of one than the other. If the cuts were all exactly the same the results could be more