Have a look at the photograph of the pile of papers and write a post to the Discussion about how you would measure its thickness. This may seem silly but it has a few real world applications. For example, an ecologist may be interested in the thickness of a leaf litter layer on a forest floor but she wants to compare her results to other forests and other workers. The pile of leaves on the forest floor would look a lot like that pile of papers and she needs to measure it. So, given this problem how would you solve it? - the photograph is just a pile of crumpled papers stacked on top of one another

Look at the following answer choices and determine which belongs in the both category. testable, can be disproven explains natural phenomena, has evidence to support it prediction, tentative, one or more scientists working together well established, many different scientists working independently, highly reliable

There is a liquid capsule inside a cup full of liquid. the cup full of liquid has salt in it and the liquid capsule has no salt in it. in which direction will the solvent flow? a. the salt does not have to move b. from the capsule to the larger cup c. equally between the capsule and the cup d. from the larger cup to the capsule

To answer this question, researchers studied populations of the dusky salamander (desmognathus ochrophaeus) living on different mountain ranges in the southern appalachian mountains. the researchers tested the reproductive isolation of pairs of salamander populations by leaving one male and one female together and later checking the females for the presence of sperm. four mating combinations were tested for each pair of populations (a and b)—two within the same population (female a with male a and female b with male b) and two between populations (female a with male b and female b with male a). the proportion of successful matings for each mating combination was measured. for example, when all the matings of a particular combination were successful, the researchers gave it a value of 1; when none of the matings were successful, they gave it a value of 0. then the researchers calculated an index of reproductive isolation that ranged from 0 (no isolation) to 2 (full isolation). the reproductive isolation value for two populations is the sum of the proportion of successful matings of each type within populations (aa + bb) minus the sum of the proportion of successful matings of each type between populations (ab + ba). the table provides data for the geographic distances and reproductive isolation values for 27 pairs of dusky salamander populations.