• Imagine a plant as a dancer who moves according to the beats (or stimuli) around it.🌱💃

  • Real-world example: If you ever played a game where you tilt your device to control the character's movement, that's kinda like how plants react to the stimuli around them!

• Tropic Responses (or tropisms): When plants control their growth direction by responding to external cues like sunlight or gravity.

  • Positive Tropism: Growing towards the stimulus.

  • Negative Tropism: Growing away from the stimulus.

  • 🌍 Gravitropic (or Geotropic): Responding to gravity.

    • Roots usually love this! They show positive gravitropism, growing downwards like they're chasing after buried treasure.
    • Shoots are the opposite - they're negative gravitropism and tend to grow up, away from gravity, like balloons.

  • ☀️ Phototropic: Responding to light.

    • Shoots are sun-chasers, showing positive phototropism.

• Qualitative Observations: Direct observations without counting.
  • E.g., "This apple is red." or "This flower smells sweet."
• Quantitative Observations: Using measurements and numbers.
  • E.g., "This tree is 5 meters tall."

🎯 Accuracy Vs. Precision: Imagine playing darts! 🎯

• Accuracy: How close your dart is to the bullseye.

• Precision: How detailed your dart score can be. E.g., 5 or 5.00.

• Reliable Measurements: When your measurements are both on point (accurate) and super detailed (precise)!

  • Tip: To be a measurement superstar
    • Use your tools the right way! 📏
    • Make sure tools start at zero before measuring.
    • Remember there's some wiggle room (uncertainty) when starting and ending measurements.