Photosynthesis Lab Report
ii. accurately interpret data and explain results using correct scientific reasoning
As the data shows above, the more light there is shining on the plant, the more bubbles there are per minute. Although it dips from time to time, the experiment with two lights always have a higher average than the previous ones. This means that the light intensity actually has an impact on the plant’s photosynthesis levels. The reason that there are more bubbles in the experiments with more light is because of the oxygen release rate. With more light intensity, the rate of photosynthesis happens faster. Since the process of photosynthesis release oxygen, the more oxygen will be released creating the bubbles underwater.
To clarify, photosynthesis is the process of which a plant's chloroplasts, with the aid of the sun (or a flashlight in this situation), break the bonds of H2O (Water) and CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) to form CH2O (Carbohydrates/ Glucose) and O (Oxygen). This means if the plant does photosynthesis faster, …show more content…
Since there was so many people doing the experiment at once, there was a bit of chaos that may have affected the results. An examples included the fact that human bodies produce body heat. Although slight, the changes in temperature around the room may have caused different results. There was also a lot of different distractions around the room causing for invalid results because we may have missed bubbles that needed to be counted. Some sources of error were not changing the plant or the water. This has an effect because sometimes a plant needs to “warm up” before doing photosynthesis. My data shows this as the plant only started producing bubbles after a few seconds and even then, the bubbles were at small amounts, slowly increasing. The water needed to be changed because the water may could have been
As the data shows above, the more light there is shining on the plant, the more bubbles there are per minute. Although it dips from time to time, the experiment with two lights always have a higher average than the previous ones. This means that the light intensity actually has an impact on the plant’s photosynthesis levels. The reason that there are more bubbles in the experiments with more light is because of the oxygen release rate. With more light intensity, the rate of photosynthesis happens faster. Since the process of photosynthesis release oxygen, the more oxygen will be released creating the bubbles underwater.
To clarify, photosynthesis is the process of which a plant's chloroplasts, with the aid of the sun (or a flashlight in this situation), break the bonds of H2O (Water) and CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) to form CH2O (Carbohydrates/ Glucose) and O (Oxygen). This means if the plant does photosynthesis faster, …show more content…
Since there was so many people doing the experiment at once, there was a bit of chaos that may have affected the results. An examples included the fact that human bodies produce body heat. Although slight, the changes in temperature around the room may have caused different results. There was also a lot of different distractions around the room causing for invalid results because we may have missed bubbles that needed to be counted. Some sources of error were not changing the plant or the water. This has an effect because sometimes a plant needs to “warm up” before doing photosynthesis. My data shows this as the plant only started producing bubbles after a few seconds and even then, the bubbles were at small amounts, slowly increasing. The water needed to be changed because the water may could have been