Objective to study the variations in leaves and plant growth in different biomes.
Materials
leaves from tropical house plants (rainforest)
leaves from New Haven native plants (deciduous forest)
samples of cacti and succulents (desert)
Procedure
1. Look carefully at a sample leaf from each biome. Record your observations below for each feature.
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presence
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presence
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of surface
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tickness
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of a waxy
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features (hairs,
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edges smooth
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color
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of leaf
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covering
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spines, etc)
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or jagged
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Rainforest 1.
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Deciduous 1.
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Desert 1.
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Evaluation of data Do you see any similarities among leaf types of any of the biomes? What are they?______________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________