1. CausesEffects Planting vegetablesLess air pollution from transportation Planting VegetablesLess money spent on imported vegetables Planting vegetablesLess water pollution from chemicals Planting VegetablesLess carbon dioxide in the air

2. QuestionThink about your topic and the background. Who can help you? Mrs. Armbruster What do you already know about this? Vegetable plants need good fertile soil, the plants need sunlight, and the plants need cold water. Where are you doing this? Indoors which is in my house When will you do this? Next week Why is it a good idea? It is a good idea because it will reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the air and it will reduce water pollution How will you do this? We will plants vegetables in pots and water them daily so they won’t die.

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4. QuestionConditional StatementIf, Then Statement Does having your own garden save money? Having your own garden may save money. If having your own garden saves money the demand for vegetables in grocery stores will decrease. Sample: Most commonly, hypotheses take three formats: 1.a question, "Does temperature affect fermentation?" 2.a conditional statement, "Temperature may affect fermentation." 3.an If, then statement, "If fermentation rate is related to temperature, then increasing the temperature will increase gas production.

5. 1. Start with your solution. 2. Investigate your topic-conduct background research. 3. Identify the problem -figure out what you want to know or explain. 4. Form a hypothesis. 5. Create an experiment-determine how you will find data to learn what you want to know or explain. 6. Perform the experiment-collect data about your topic. 7. Write your report-give a review of your entire process from your background research to your experimental results. 8. Make a Web 2.0 Presentation regarding your hypothesis, research, experiment, data and conclusion.

6. 1. Soil - $4.28 2. Seed tray- $ 4.28 3. Seeds-$9.60 4. Total-$18.16