Dr YanTing Choong Y7 Biology 2019

Lesson Title: Water Transportation in Celery Stem Date:

Starter: Read the instructions below and complete the 2 questions

Aim: To investigate the speed at which water travels up celery stems.

Hypothesis/Prediction
1 a Do you think water will move faster up a celery stem that has leaves or one that
does not have leaves?

b Why do you think this?

Lesson Title: Water Transportation in Celery Stem Date:

Starter: Read the instructions below and complete the 2 questions

Aim
To investigate the speed at which water travels up celery stems.

Hypothesis/Prediction
1 a Do you think water will move faster up a celery stem that has leaves or one that
does not have leaves?

b Why do you think this?

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Activity one: Measure how fast the dye has travelled up the celery stem.
Method
Apparatus Food dye will
● celery stem without leaves ● celery stem with leaves stain your
clothes.
● beaker of food dye ● stopclock ● ruler

A Both celery (one with leaves on, the other one without) are placed in dyed water.
A Remove both stems at the same time and break them open lengthways. Measure how far
up each stem the dye has reached.

Recording your results

Table 1. Distance that dye has travelled up a celery stem.

Time you left the stem in Distance the dye travelled

the dye (min) (cm)
stem with leaves

stem without leaves

Data Analysis
1 You can work out how fast the dye moved using this formula:
distance
speed = time
Work out how fast the dye in each stem has moved in centimetres per minute. Show
your working in the space below:

Answers:
a Speed for the stem without leaves: cm/min

b Speed for the stem with leaves: cm/min

c Which stem did water travel the fastest in? .

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Discussion
2 In which stem did the move faster?
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3 Why do you think the dye moved faster in one stem than the other?

4 What type of tissue transports water upward in a plant stem?

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5 What is transpiration and where does it occur in plants?

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6 How does transpiration help the upward movement of water?

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Conclusion
Write a conclusion about what factors can affect the rate of water transport in plants.
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Evaluation
7 Accuracy is about how detailed your measurements are.
How could you collect more accurate evidence?
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8 Reliability is how sure you are that your results are correct.. If you, or others doing the
same experiment, can get similar data then the data is more likely to be reliable.
a How reliable is your evidence?

d How could you collect more reliable evidence?

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Activity Two: Identify the plant structure that transports water

Method

Cut a cross section of the celery.

(i) Draw a diagram of the cross section of the celery in figure one.
(ii) Label and name the structure that transports water in the celery stem

Figure 1. Cross section of a celery stem