Background

Our project is researching the effects of massive amounts of Co2 on different types of carnivorous plants, we plan on making a very customized terrarium to meet our needs. The terrarium will be filled with surplus amounts of Co2 with the carnivorous plants growing inside, we are studying and questioning whether or not Co2 effects carnivorous plant growth or if it just kills them but hopefully they become man eating carnivorous plants.

When carnivorous plants are just beginning to grow they don't require insects to survive they also use photosynthesis, which also answer the question "Do carnivorous plants perform photosynthesis?" Yes, they Do preform photosynthesis.

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Carnivorous plants usually grow in swampy areas where soil nutrients are scarce. To make up for the gap in nutrition the plants consume insects and absorb the extra nutrients.

At the moment we don't have anyone helping us with our project except members of our group, the internet, and the teachers.

Has anyone one else preformed this experiment? No, no one that we know of has ever done this exact test.

We will see if carnivorous plants grow in an almost %100 Co2 environment, will they even grow a little bit? Do the large amounts of Co2 effect the plants at all?

Honestly we all just thought it was cool?! Also it's never been done before.

Well, with the supposed "global warming" and the rise in Co2 levels we want to know if its hazardous or good for certain plants?

Before we preform our big project we will be conducting a small scale of our small scale experiment. This idea came from Mr. Weiseth we will be growing Wisconsin fast plants in side little plastic tubs and putting a small cylinder with Calcium Carbonate powder mixed with Hydrocloric acid creating small doses of Co2 inside the tub which is sealed and has 2 probes protruding into the tub (one o2 meter and one Co2 meter) the average level of Co2 in the atmosphere is 391ppm the reading we got inside our tub was 10,100 parts per million. This test is to see wether we are just going to kill the plants or actually get results.

With the main source of Co2 coming from, cars, burning coal, and humans global warming has been a big controversy among people and has a lot of people worried. Global warming is basically the idea of the world being a giant green house and the rise in Co2 levels around the world kinda help the warming of the planet and with some Arctic glaciers melting what do people do? blame global warming.

Well we don't exactly have a problem we're trying to solve we're just examining/studying a hypothesis.