The test will either support your hypothesis because the lights do not work or the test will not support your hypothesis because the lights do work, and you will have to modify your

hypothesis or come up with a completely new one

Q2. Your uncle Jim makes a salad dressing that you really like. After Sunday's dinner

he gives you a bottle with some of the dressing to take home to use during the

following week. When you take the bottle out of the fridge next day, you see that

there are different layers of fluid. Your first instinct is to call uncle Jim and ask him

whether the dressing went bad. However, you remember reviewing the scientific

method and want to use it to find out what happened to the dressing.

Write out each of the 6 steps above applying the scientific method to this

observation.

1. observation:

2. question:

3. hypothesis:

4. prediction:

5. test:

6. conclusion:

Q3. Your friend, Barbara, tells you she is using a new fertilizer on her roses. She

believes this new fertilizer, "Mega Rose", is making her roses grow faster and flower

more than your roses. How could you use the scientific method to decide if you

should start using "Mega Rose" on your roses, too?

Write out each of the 6 steps above applying the scientific method to this

observation.

1. observation:

2. question:

3. hypothesis:

4. prediction:

5. test:

6. conclusion: