Measuring the impact of a chosen variable on the chosen abiotic or biotic factor

Your task:

- Choose a specific biotic or an abiotic factor that changes in an ecosystem due to a known variable either natural or anthropogenic (originating in human activity)

- Design a method to investigate the change. Remember to include a minimum of five trials in every independent variable group.

i. Explain a problem or question to be tested by a scientific investigation
ii. Formulate a testable hypothesis and explain it using scientific reasoning
iii. Explain how to manipulate the variables, and explain how data will be collected
iv. Design scientific investigations.

Describe: to give a detailed account or picture of a situation, event, pattern or process.

Explain: give a detailed account.

Formulate: Express precisely and systematically the relevant concept(s) or argument(s)

Outline: Give a brief account.

State: Give a specific name, value or other brief answer without explanation or calculation.

Suggest: Propose a solution, hypothesis or other possible answer

Interpret: Use knowledge and understanding to recognize trends and draw conclusions from given information