Arayana's Inquiry- Popcorn

1.  Why does popcorn pop?

2.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn

http://www.actii.com/facts/

• I learned that during the Great Depression popcorn was 5 to 10 cents.
• Popcorn businesses thrived, and became a source to most farmers.
• Popcorn stores a little bit of water.

3.  My hypothesis was popcorn pops because the heat gets to the seed and it makes it goes pop!

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5.  It was spinning around and as it got hotter it started to pop in the hot air popper. When we put it in a test tube I saw the steam going up the tube.

6.  I learned that it has water stored in the kernels. The way popcorn pops lies in the fact that the kernels have water stored in them.  The heat makes the water expand and makes it go POP!