—_— Investigation 12.4 Measuring the rate of growth of a plant 1 Decide on the hypothesis you will test. gs \Y observation/Recording/Reporting Drawing Planning/Design 2 Write up your plan. Think about the variable you will change, those you will keep the same, and what you will measure. Decide when you will take your measurements, exactly how you will Manipulation/Measurement Analysis/interpretation take them and how you will record them. You You are going to compare the rate of growth of might like to take photographs as well as making seedlings in two different temperatures. Your teacher will tell you which kinds of plants you can but aut use. When you know this, you need to decide how you 3 vill measure their rate of growth. Suitable methods anght be: 4 Display your results. Use them to draw a conclusion. Was your hypothesis supported or not? Discuss your findings. How do they relate to what you know about the effect of temperature on living organisms? How reliable do you think your results are? What were your main sources of error? How would you improve your experiment if you could * measuring the height of the plant * growing many different plants, and uprooting some cach day to measure their mass * counting the number of leaves on the plant * measuring the surface area of the leaves. SEER AEE » 20 Give one advantage of using height or length as a 1.21 Why is fresh mass not a very accurate method for "Pethod for measuring growth measuring growth? do it again? 12.22. What is meant by drying to constant mass?