Morgan is designing an experiment to test the food choices of snails. she believes that snails will choose a low calorie food over a higher calorie food. she puts 4 snails in a tank with lettuce and carrots. the next day she observes the remains of the carrot and lettuce leaf. the carrot is partially eaten and so is the lettuce.

1) what would be a hypothesis for morgans experiment?

2) what is the independent variable in the experiment?

3) what is the dependent variable in the experiment?

4) what is missing from the design of the experiment?

5) why is it hard to improve the hypothesis (explain)

6) what would you do to improve the experiment?

7) can a theory be derived from this experiment? why or why not