3. DEVELOP A HYPOTHESIS OR PREDICTION
You have made your observations and you have your questions. Now you need
to make a prediction about what you think will happen next.
A hypothesis is not simply a guess! A hypothesis is an educated guess or
tentative answer to a problem. The student thinks that ice will melt faster in juice
than it will in water. Maybe he just wants to get a drink of juice out of it.
Example:
1. What happens to the growth of mongo seeds if table salt was
added to the soil?
2. Tomato seeds may grow faster in colder temperature.
Hypothesis: 1. If the amount of salt added to the soil increases, then the
growth of mongo seeds decreases.
2. If tomato seeds were planted in colder temperature, then the
seeds will grow at a faster rate.
Answers
Answer:
Explanation:
A hypothesis (plural hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. For a hypothesis to be a scientific hypothesis, the scientific method requires that one can test it. Scientists generally base scientific hypotheses on previous observations that cannot satisfactorily be explained with the available scientific theories. Even though the words "hypothesis" and "theory" are often used synonymously, a scientific hypothesis is not the same as a scientific theory. A working hypothesis is a provisionally accepted hypothesis proposed for further research,[1] in a process beginning with an educated guess or thought.[2]
A different meaning of the term hypothesis is used in formal logic, to denote the antecedent of a proposition; thus in the proposition "If P, then Q", P denotes the hypothesis (or antecedent); Q can be called a consequent. P is the assumption in a (possibly counterfactual) What If question.
The adjective hypothetical, meaning "having the nature of a hypothesis", or "being assumed to exist as an immediate consequence of a hypothesis", can refer to any of these meanings of the term "hypothesis".