environmental science apex

Which step in the scientific method is next after collecting data?

Analyzing the data

A science student makes the following statement: I think plants grow faster in acidic soil than they do in normal soil Which part of the scientific process is this?

Forming a hypothesis.

Look at the picture and observations below. Observations: The bee's wings are moving fast. The bees wings are much smaller than its body. Which question is based on these observations?

How much energy does it take a bee to fly for 10 seconds

An experiment showed that the growth of pillar coral decreased in warm water in which other organisms blocked sunlight. Which conclusion can be made based on these data?

Pillar coral need sunlight so the zooxanthella

To test how fertilizer affects tomato plants, a farmer divided a field of young tomato plants into ten plots of equal size. the farmer then put fertilizer on half of the plots and no fertilizer on the other half of the plots. What is the control group in this experiment.

The tomato plants in all the unfertilized plots

how is observation used by scientists

To learn about the world

A scientist divided a population of fruit flies into two containers, each with a different kind of food. Then she bred the fruit flies under these conditions for many generations. lastly she put the fruit flies from the two containers together again and observed which flies mated. Which question was the scientist most likely testing?

Will fruit flies bred under different conditions mate

which ultraviolet light experiment is more likely reliable and why?

experiment 1 because it gives the same results every time

which statement test describes a hypothesis?

it must be testable

How is a scientific theory developed

many different experiments are repeated many times