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Name: Brian
Grade Level 7th
Awards: Mid-Columbia Science Fair. Distinction for Clarity of presentation. honorable mention at the Mid-Coumbia Science Fair. Washington State Science and Engineering Fair,second place.

RESEARCH REPORT

Intro

Humans need plants to survive. They provide food, materials for building, and a small percentage of our oxygen. We have relied on cultivated plants since the late caveman days and we still do. There are people today who eat only plants so they rely on plants even more than the people who eat meat as well as plants. One of the more important crops today is corn.

Agriculture

Agriculture is one of the largest industries in the world. Over half of the worlds’ population is employed in agriculture. We can get a lot from agriculture like paint, food, clothing, and we also get many jobs. Agriculture provides food for our animals and us. Agriculture provides plants like corn, wheat and apples. This is a huge source of revenue for the agricultural world. 

Plants

Plants grow everywhere even in deserts. Plants can be as big as the 300-foot tall redwoods or as small as the microscopic plants called plankton, which drift in both fresh and salt-water bodies. Plants are living organisms that cannot voluntarily move. Plants have the ability to synthesize food in a process called photosynthesis.

Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis is a food making process that occurs in green plants. Photosynthesis is the chief function of leaves. The word photosynthesis means to put together with light. Green plants store energy from the sun in a green pigment called chlorophyll. All of the leaves in plants contain chlorophyll. Plants use energy from the sun to combined carbon dioxide and water to make food. The chemical formula for this is CO6=H2O
Corn

Corn is one of the largest products of agriculture. It is used to make cereal, corn oil, corn syrup, and cornstarch. There are three types of corn: “popcorn”, “feeder corn”, and “sweet corn” Humans eat both “popcorn” and “sweet corn” we use feeder corn to feed livestock. Sweet corn is what we use to make cereal, corn syrup, and cornstarch. Corn grows in conditions that are relatively easy to produce. All it needs is sunlight and warm, moist soil and it will grow. Corn grows to about 6 feet tall and can have up to 10 ears of corn per stalk. 

Water Pollutants

Pollutants can kill plants relatively easily depending on the plant and the amount of that pollutant. A few of the more notable toxins are oil, antifreeze, deicer, and factory runoff that gets dumped into the water supply. Antifreeze is especially dangerous because it is a strong pollutant and it is water-soluble. Deicer is also water-soluble and can be a very strong pollutant. Soap is generally not a very strong pollutant, but detergents are known to be harmful to some organisms

Summary

We need plants to survive. Humans realize this and utilize plants in the form of agriculture. Pollution is a threat to plants so it becomes a threat to agriculture and can become a threat to us. It is important to know what different pollutants can do to important crops like corn.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank the following people for helping make my project possible:
* My parents for all of their support and time that they gave up to help me.
* My friends for putting up with my postponing of events to work on this project
* My science teachers for their time and effort to help me complete this project. Abstract