Exercise: Growing Vegetables




BIO226 : Individual : Environmental Factors : Growing Vegetables

Exercise: Growing Vegetables

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1. Suppose you met a person who found out that you are taking an ecology class. She moved to town a year ago and tried to grow vegetables in her garden, but with very poor results. She does not know if she is watering enough or using enough fertilizer.

Using what you have learned about the scientific method and environmental factors, design an experiment that will determine if water or fertilizer are the problems.

a) Describe how you ran (what was the design of) your experiment.

2. b) Assuming that you find that plant yield was affected by water and fertilizer, explain how you would determine how much of each to advise your new acquaintance to apply to her garden.

3. c) Describe the data you obtained from your experiment. What did it "look like?"

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