Maggie is a member of her school’s environmental club and is interested in recycling. She asks the question, “How does exposure to the environment affect recyclable plastics?”

What best describes why and how Maggie should change her question to make it a better scientific question?

The answer to the question leads to a testable hypothesis, so the question should be changed to prevent testing.
The question involves giving an opinion about recycling, so it should be changed to rely only on facts.
The focus of the question is too broad, so it should be narrowed to a single environmental factor.
The results are too uncertain, so the question should be changed to one that has a known outcome.

Silica, sio2, is formed on silicon as an electrically insulating layer for microelectronic devices. silica is formed when silicon is exposed to o2 gas at an elevated temperature. at 900˚c, it takes 90 minutes for the oxygen to diffuse from the surface to form a 0.06 micron (0.06 x 10-6 m) thick layer of sio2 on

Dying the folding patterns of protein molecules can microbiologists better understand cellular processes as well as some diseases, such as alzheimer’s, that are caused by proteins that have misfolded. the folding of these complicated molecules can be simulated on computers, but it takes a lot of processor power and time for even expensive supercomputers to do this. a group of researchers at stanford university developed software that can be used to distribute the processing of data to anyone who is willing to donate time on their idle personal computers. as a result, the researchers have been able to achieve protein-folding simulations that are far better than those other computing methods have done. which statement best describes the work of these researchers? the work is not scientific because the data are not processed in one location. the work is not scientific because the simulations are not reproducible. the researchers applied creativity to solve a problem in running an experiment. the researchers used only well-established scientific techniques.

Which of the following pressures is equal to 760 mm hg? 2.0 atm 101.3 pa 101,300 kpa 101,300 pa