How much of fruits and vegetables are water?

By Louisa and Madeira

Materials:

Vegetables, Fruits, and a scale.

1.3 oz. 0.5 oz.

1.6 oz. 0.1 oz.

We weighed fruits, let them dry, then weighed them again.

Before After

0.5 oz. 0.2 oz.

1.7 oz. 1.0 oz.

2.0 oz. 0.9 oz.

0.5 oz. 0.1 oz.

We did the same thing with these vegetables.

0.9 oz. 0.1 oz.

1.2 oz. 0.3 oz.

We traced the fruits & vegetables on paper before & after drying them.

We made this chart to show the results of our experiment, what percent of each fruit and vegetable is water.

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100 80 89

55 43

64 75

62

39 41

94

60

Related Topics: What percent of

the human body is water?

We researched this question and found many results, so we calculated, (made mistakes) and came up with an average: 65%.

Related Topics:How does

transpiration happen in plants?Stamatas are the cells in

a leaf. These cells fill with water vapor, and that expands the cell and causes it to open. Then the water vapor escapes and the cell closes again. That process is transpiration. Transpiration is water escaping from anything.

Genesis 1 : 11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.

What we learned:Throughout this

exciting experiment, we learned many

things about our topic and God. We learned about the

huge role God played in it, and

the amazing ways He made our world.