Question

For this activity, I want you to GO OUTSIDE. You don't have to go far. Find a city park. Find a patch of grass. Find your backyard. Find your local playground. But find somewhere where maybe there is some vegetation and some nonhuman animals.

Step 1. Look around you. Make careful observations. What do you see? What kinds of phenomena define the landscape that you see before you? What kinds of organisms travel along with it? How does water move through it (think precipitation, how does water get into the ground? Where is the closest water body where a drop of water might end up?) What kinds of things can't you see that you might be curious about? Don't limit yourself or your thinking. Stretch your mind. Include the land, the sky, the soil, etc. Observe the big picture as well as the tiny picture.

Below, briefly describe the environment around you. Remember the environment includes the atmosphere, biosphere, lithosphere (the ground) and the hydrosphere (lakes, oceans, rain):

Step 2. Now write your observations in the form of scientific questions. Scientific questions are those that can be addressed using observation and hypothesis testing. Write at least ten scientific questions. Think big, think small, and everywhere in between.

Step 3. Pick the question that you think would be the easiest to address using the scientific method and try to form two different possible answers. Frame them in the form of scientific hypotheses: your best guess given your current knowledge of the natural world.

Question picked:

Hypothesis 1:

Hypothesis 2:

Step 4. Now, as best you can, write a paragraph describing an experiment or study you could run to address your question. In your study, tell me what the independent and dependent variables are. What sort of things should be controlled for?

Answer 1

• The water cycle, otherwise called the hydrologic cycle or the hydrological cycle, portrays the persistent development of water on, above and underneath the outside of the Earth. The mass of water on Earth remains genuinely steady after some time yet the dividing of the water into the significant repositories of ice, new water, saline water, and environmental water is variable relying upon a wide scope of climatic factors. The water moves to start with one repository then onto the next, for example, from waterway to sea, or from the sea to the air, by the physical procedures of vanishing, buildup, precipitation, penetration, surface spillover, and subsurface stream. In doing such, the water experiences various structures: fluid, strong (ice) and fume.
• The water cycle includes the trading of vitality, which prompts temperature changes. At the point when water vanishes, it takes up vitality from its environment and cools the earth. At the point when it gathers, it discharges vitality and warms nature. This warm trades impact the atmosphere.
• The evaporative period of the cycle cleans water which at that point recharges the land with freshwater. The progression of fluid water and ice transports minerals over the globe. It is likewise associated with reshaping the geographical highlights of the Earth, through procedures including disintegration and sedimentation. The water cycle is additionally basic for the support of most life and biological systems on the planet.