Question
  • Take three flower pots of the same size.
  • Keep one pot empty. Fill the second pot. With water after closing the hole at the bottom and fill the third pot with soil.
  • Put a few seeds in all of them. (You may use aserio, peas, gram, fenugreek, wheat, green gram, coriander seeds, etc.)
  • Keep all the three pots in the sun. and water the empty pot and the soil-filled pot for 4-5 days. Observe and answer the following.

(1) What happened to the seeds put in the empty pot and pot filled with water?
(2) What happened to the seeds put in the pot (c) filled with soil?
(3) What do you learn from this?

Answer

(1) Seeds in the empty pot and the pot filled with water did not germinate and did not show any sign of growth.
(2) Seeds germinated and we could see some small twigs branching out.
(3) We learn that plants need sunlight, water and soil to grow.

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