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Who we are: Three ninth grade students, class of 2026
Mac -Visual Director Mary - Researcher Jackson - Documenter
-Background Information-
-Background Information-
The Free State prairie is an ecological restoration and experiment site made by (Julie Shcwarting) a teacher at Lawrence Free State to bring ecology and nature to students in a suburban area. The prairie is divided into plots, the plots are made up of a combination of native grasses and forbes. Some have only grasses, some have grasses and forbes, and others grass and twice the forbes. Our testable question is ‘Does the fertility of different plots lead to a more healthy Boneset plant'. Why we choose to test fertility of different plots lead to a more healthy Boneset plant as our question, is because this question seemed intersting and our group wanted to see if something in the soil had any connection to the plant height in the prairie. Our group found it important to test this question to find how abiotic factors may affect the food chain around that come from it, and to see how the energy flow might work in plots with higher or lower fertility. We measured this with the Boneset plant to see the effects of fertile soil. Our group measured fertility by the levels of potassium, nitrogen and phosphorus, the vital nutrients for plants.
-Methods-
-Methods-
On the first day out on the prairie we brought with us three cups, and a small shovel we collected soil from plots fifteen, sixteen, seventeen. Our documenter dug in a spot where he collected dirt in each plot we selected so he could fill the cups up with soil in the plots fifteen, sixteen, seventeen. What plots are is sections on the prairie with grasses and twice the forbes (fifteen), seeding grasses section (sixteen), and grasses and forbes section on the prairie where plot seventeen is located. On the second day we measured the plant we chose called tallest boneset plant in plots fifteen, sixteen, seventeen. Using a yardstick and measured in inches, the notes we got was plot fifteen tallest boneset plant in each plot was sixty-five inches. In plot fifteen and plot sixteen, sixty inches, plot seventeen was forty-eight inches. That's how we came up with the answer of what the tallest plant in plot fifteen, sixteen, seventeen. Then we worked a little on the website. One the last day in class we used the rapitest digital analyzer to analyze fertility of the soil to see if it affects the height of the boneset plant by adding a little water to the soil before testing.
-Map-
-Map-
Where plots fifteen, sixteen, and seventeen are located.
-Data-
-Data-
-Conclusion(s)-
-Conclusion(s)-
The conclusion of our experiment is that the soil doesn't change how tall the plant; Boneset are going to be when we tested the fertility rates with a 'rapitest digital three-way analyzer'. The soil all had a fertility rate of four when we tested the soil from the plots we chose. So in conclusion the Fertility rate of the soil in plots fifteen, sixteen, and seventeen don't affect the Boneset plant growth.
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