Reflection+on+my+Pet's+growth+data

=WHAT HAVE I LEARNED?= ===From this project I have learned a lot about 1. Taking care of a plant, 2. The differences of taking care of certain types of plants, 3. Recording data and presenting it in the form of dependent and independent variables on a graph, 4. Analyzing the data and finding patterns and how to explain certain parts of the data. I learned about how to take care of the plant, obviously, by having to take care of it and keep it alive. I learned that a lot of water is necessary in taking care of MY certain type of plant. I learned that it grows well in sunlight and that it may also survive in the dark because the sunlight dries out the soil. I learned that the leaf length, plant weight, and stem length vary greatly through different types of plants, and what different plants NEED to survive isn't always the same. Through recording my data in my notebook, and then on graphs in excel I could see certain things that went up and down in my plant's stem growth, leaf length, and weight. Also, I could see correspondences between all 3 dependent variables once I looked at the graphs and the data all together. With the common variable of time I could see in some areas of the graphs that all three things went down at the same point in time. This, to me, could mean that maybe there was a weekend or break where the plant lost water and so the weight, leaf length, and stem height decreased. Being able to monitor these veriables and then look over the results also makes me see the errors in my measurements, and the uncertainties. For example, the uncertainties on the leaf length variable will be a lot bigger than those of the weight because the leaf is so small, and the scale (cm) is quite big. However, for the weight, the scale (in grams) is quite precise and won't make as large a mistake as I can because it measures up to 2 decimal points. Over the past few months, I can think of a couple big questions which came up.=== ====1. Would my plant grow better without sunlight? Is the sunlight drying out the soil and making the plant die? (Which connected to my plant experiment of how different lights affect plant growth) and those questions led to a question I thought of after my experiments: "Can/how does photosynthesis happen in the dark, without light?"==== ====2. If I had changed the soil from the old soil it started out with would it have grown differently? Was it because the soil started out so dry that it stayed dry? Could it not absorb water well enough for the plant to receive enough?====