- Role
- Finalist
- Region
- Northwestern Ontario
- Pronouns
- she/her/hers
Gabriela Blandón Atía
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Project
Can plants thrive in a plastic world?
Project #7210
Microplastics pose a significant threat to the environment, marine life, and humans. My experiment aimed to determine whether noticeable effects on plant growth resulted from microplastics in the soil. Plants with five different microplastic concentrations in the soil were grown. During twenty days of growth, data on the length and health of each plant were observed and analyzed. It was determined that microplastics show no significant correlation with lower germination and survival rates, but plants grown with microplastics had noticeably lower lengths throughout the final stages of the experiment. Plants grown without microplastics were larger and healthier, despite having fewer surviving plants. The findings of this experiment show how microplastics in soil may affect agriculture by changing crop yield, as well as showing potential deterioration of plant health.
- Challenge
- Environment and Climate Change
- Category
- Intermediate
- Type
- Discovery