Science Celery Experiment

Question:
How do vascular plants transport water to its cells?

Hypothesis:
I think the stock of celery that have leaves will suck up water more than
the stock of celery that has no leaves.

Materials:
- 4 stocks of celery
- 125ml of water
- Measurement tubes
- 1 Syringe
- 5 viles
- 1 vile holder
- Food color (red)
- 4 tissue

Procedure:
1. Pull out the leaves off two celeries.
Use the syringe to put each 25ml from the 125ml of water into each of
the viles (125 divided by 5 equals 25ml).
3. Then put each stock of celery into each of the filled viles.
4. Leave the fifth vile empty only put the 25ml of water in.
5. Put the viles that are just prepared into the viles holder and then label
the viles the put two drops of food color (Red) into each of the viles. Don’t
put any of the food color into the fifth vile.
6. Put the viles holder that has the viles that just have been prepared
beside the window that has the sunlight shine through it.
7. Wait for a week.
8. After that take out the celery from one of the viles and put it on a tissue
then pour the water inside that vile into the measurement tube see how
much the celery has suck up water then put it in a data table that you are
going to do it now!!!
9. Describe the celery.
10. Put the information into the data table.
11. Do it to the other viles too (including the one that has only water in it
but no celery. Just measure the water.)
12. Label the data table correctly.

Data Table:
Celery Water level Description

No Leaves 22ml Smells bad. When we

open the celery inside
there are red water
inside. Look kinda bad.

No leaves 21ml Smells very bad.

Bottoms stem red, very
red. Stand up straight.

Yes Leaves 20ml Dead leaves. Water

that stuck inside is
kinda sticky.

Yes Leaves 18ml Nice leaves. Healthy

plant. No smell.

Water 23ml Plain water

Analysis:
The analysis is that the celery that has no leaves suck up water less than
the celery that has leaves. So my hypothesis was correct. the celery that
has no leaves smells bad, kinda sticky and looks kinda bad. The red water
usually are in the bottom stem. And the water evaporates about 2ml.

The celery that has leaves has nice leaves. Looks very healthy and there
is no smell. But the other celery that has leaves has dead leaves. The
water that stuck inside are kinda sticky. And the stem looks a lot different
to the healthy celery that has leaves.

Error Analysis:
We didn’t put the viles outside. Because if we did put the viles outside
then the celeries would be closer to the sun or maybe it could get more
light. That way the choice that the celeries would die would be more
lesser. And the amount of water that evaporates would change.

The other thing was that some of the water was still stuck in the viles
when we pour out the water to measure the amount of water that is left. If
it wasn’t stuck in there our answer would be 100% accurate. Next time if I
have ever get a chance to do this experiment again I will never ever let
one drop of water left out when we measure. Because it will never be
accurate and will never be 100% correct. Still I can used a syringe to suck
up the drops of the left out water