Analyze a popular science article describing recent scientific research, analyze its contents, and identify the elements of the scientific method (hypothesis, tests, observations, and conclusions) described in the article. Demonstrate that you can distinguish between hypothesis, tests, observations, and conclusions.
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https://sites.google.com/elcamino.edu/noyes/oceanography/article-analysis-homework
Write 1, 2, 3, etc. in front of your answers so that it is clear where your answer to one question ends and your answer to another question begins. You do not have to include the questions, but if you do, use a color, bold, italics, or highlighting (or some combination of them) so that I can find your answers more easily.
1. Write the title of your article, the name of the publication that your article comes from, and the date your article was published. If the article is not one of the articles listed below, provide a link to the article or attach the article to your submission so that other people can read it and evaluate your work.
2.State the hypothesis(es) being tested by the research described in the article.
Do NOT discuss the tests, the resulting observations, or their conclusions in your answer to question 2.
3. Describe one or more tests or experiments that the scientists performed to gather new observations that would allow them to determine which hypothesis is probably correct.
Do NOT discuss the hypothesis, the resulting observations, or their conclusions in your answer question 3.
4.Describe the new observations that the scientists obtained from their test(s).
Do not discuss the hypothesis, the tests, or their conclusions in your answer to question 4.
5.Describe the scientists’ conclusions (interpretation of their observations).
In other words, what do they think their observations indicate or suggest is true about the world?
6.Explain how or why the observations led scientists to come to believe in their conclusions. What do you think? Do you agree with them? If so, what do you think we should do differently given this research? If not, what additional observations do you think should be gathered that would allow you to decide if the conclusions are probably right or probably wrong?
7.Use your own words to describe the information in the article when answering the questions below, and write as if you were trying to explain the concepts to a friend or family member who is NOT familiar with the subject matter. Do NOT plagiarize the article; in other words, do NOT copy sentences from the article. (Even if you put the copied material in quotes, you have not done the assignment, which is to “answer in your own words,” right?)
