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Individual Research Question (Pick One!)

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Individual Research Question (Pick One!)

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1. Life Cycle of a Plant (____)
What are the three different life cycles of a plant, and what does each mean?
http://extension.illinois.edu/gpe/case1/c1facts1b.html

2. Growing Plants Indoors (____)
What are the seven different things a plant needs to grow indoors? Make sure to explain each of the seven stages in your own words!
http://extension.illinois.edu/gpe/case1/c1facts3a.html

3. What is Soil Made Of? (____)
What are the four things soil is made up out of? Is soil alive? Why or why not?
http://extension.illinois.edu/gpe/case2/c2facts1.html

4. Soil Types (____)
What are three different types of soil, and explain their size and characteristics in words meant for people who aren't soil experts!
http://extension.illinois.edu/gpe/case2/c2facts2.html

5. Seeds (____)
What is a seed? Can it travel/move? Are seeds important? Explain in your own words!
http://extension.illinois.edu/gpe/case3/c3facts1.html

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Bonus Question #1 - Easy (____)
What does a plant need to grow well? What happens if it gets one of these, and not the other?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/plants_grow.shtml

Bonus Question #2 - Hard (____)
What are the four words we use to evaluate different rocks making up our soil? What does each of them mean? Please give an example for each one!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/rocks_soils.shtml

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What is one of the organisms living with the plants in our soil? (Mr. Giraldi's Sample Answer)

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What is one of the organisms living with the plants in our soil? (Mr. Giraldi's Sample Answer)

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One of the organisms living in our soil is the mole. Moles use their webbed feet and strong shoulder muscles to literally swim through the soil! Unlike their cousins the shrews, moles are almost blind. They use their sense of smell and the ability to feel vibrations to find food and navigate. Moles help control populations of harmful insects. Digging is hard work. So an active mole must eat about half its entire body weight each day!

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Life Cycle of a Plant  (Elizabeth)                                

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What are the three different life cycles of a plant, and what does each mean?

The three types plant life cycles s of a plants are annual, perennial, and biennial.

An annual means a plant  will grow, then turn into a  flower, next it will turn into a seed set, then it will die. And it will never come back.

A  perennial means  a plant can grow for 3 or more years. It grows a flower and then a seed set for many years.This plant will come back every year.

A biennial plant means that it will take two seasons to grow. It will grow leaves in the one season, then it rests over the winter, then it starts growing again, and grow flower, seed set and die.

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Soil types (Sweeney and Abinaya)                                 

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Soil types (Sweeney and Abinaya)                                 

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What are three different types of soil ,and explain their size and characteristics in word meant for people who aren't soil experts!                                                                   The three types of soil are clay,sand and silt .Sand is the largest particle in the soil.When you rub it feels rough because it has sharp edges.Silt is a soil particle whose size is between sand and clay.Silt feels smooth and powdery.Clay is the smallest of particles.Clay is smooth when dry and sticky when wet.Soils high in clay content are called heavy soil.Clay also can hold a lot of nutrients but doesn't let air and water through it well.

http://extension.illinois.edu/gpe/case2/c2facts2.html

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(Sweeney and Abinaya)

What are the three types of soil,and explain their size and characteristics in the words meant for people who aren't soil experts.

The three types of soil are clay,silt and sand.Sand is the largest particle in the soil when you rub it it feels rough because it has sharp edges it doesn't hold that much nutrients.Another kind of soil is silt it is also a particle that is between clay and sand.Silt also feels smooth and powdery but when it's wet it feels smooth but not sticky.Clay is the smallest of all particles.Clay is smooth when it's dry and it's sticky when it is wet.Soils high is clay contact are called heavy soils.Clay can also hold lot's of nutrients.But it also doesn't let air and water through it.

http://extension.illinois.edu/gpe/case2/c2facts2.html

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What are the four things soil is made up out of? Is soil alive? Why or why not?

Soil is made up of rock, water,air and leaves. Without all these things soil would not be made. Because all the things inside have a something soil needs. Soil is not alive because it does not eat or drink.

http://extension.illinois.edu/gpe/case2/c2facts1.html

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What are the seven different things a plant needs to grow indoors? Make sure to explain each of the seven stages in your own words!

The seven different things a plant needs are....

1. Space to grow because it needs space for it`s roots to grow.
2. Time because it takes time to grow.
3. The perfect temperature because if it gets too hot, it will burn up. If it`s too cold, it will freeze.
4. Water because it gets thirsty every now and then.
5. Sunlight because plants like bright light.
6. Air because plants need to breath.
7. Nutrients because air, water, soil, and sunlight give plants the nutrients they need to survive.

http://extension.illinois.edu/gpe/case1/c1facts3a.html

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What is a seed? Can it travel/move? Are seeds important? Explain in your own words!

Seeds come in many different sizes, shapes and colours. Seeds are very important because they provide us food to eat,and make trees to give us and animals oxygen so we can stay alive. Seeds can move from water, wind, animals and gravity.
http://extension.illinois.edu/gpe/case3/c3facts1.html

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What does a plant need to grow well? What happens if it gets one of these, and not the other?

A plan needs water,air,light and warmth. If one of these things the plant doesn't have the plant will not live.It is a reason because each one of these help make the food in the plants body. That process is called Photosenthasess.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/plants_grow.shtml

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What are the four words we use to evaluate different rocks making up our soil?
Colour, luster, texture and hardness are the four words we use to evaluate different rocks making up our soil.

What does each of them mean?
Colour means what it looks like (red, orange, yellow, green blue, purple, pink, etc). Luster means how shiny it is. Texture means how it feels when you touch it (rough, smooth, bumpy, etc). Hardness means (hard, soft).

Please give an example for each one!
- The colour of this rock is yellowish
- The luster of this rock is very shiny
- The texture of this rock is smooth
- The hardness of this rock is hard

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What does a plant need to grow well?What happens if it gets one of these, and not the other?

A plant needs water, sun light, air and soil. A plant needs all of those things because if a gets only sun light it will die because it will have no food; the soil is the food. It needs all of those because all of those things have an important role for the plant.

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If you give a plant water and you do not give it sunlight it is going to die,because the soil won't get enough nutrients from the sun and water.

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If you get one and not the other the plant will die because you need a back and forth pattern of heat and water so it will grow.And if you do get the one but not the other it will die because you need water ,sunlight and air and it will take four weeks to grow

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Bonus Question number one (Abinaya and Sweeney)

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Bonus Question number one (Abinaya and Sweeney)

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If you put to much water and not enough of heat it will die because you have to put the same amount of water and heat. It needs sunlight and water to grow well.If you put to much water the roots will get soggy and it will die.If you put to much of heat it  will also die because the conditions will be to hot.

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Bonus Question number one (Abinaya and Sweeney)

Abinaya Gunenthirarajan - Cashmere Avenue PS (1260)
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Bonus Question number one (Abinaya and Sweeney)
If you put to much water and not enough of heat it will die because you have to put the same amount of water and heat. It needs sunlight and water to grow well.If you put to much water the roots will get soggy and it will die.If you put to much of heat it  will also die because the conditions will be to hot.