Type your response in the box After her sunlight experiment Mary observes that the plants in her garden grow when she waters the soil.
wonders if the plants would grow with the same amount of water, but no soil. Using the steps of the scient
method explain how Mary would conduct a science experiment to test whether plants need soil to grow.

Elements and compounds are pure substances that cannot be broken down physically into a simpler substance. a physical change doesn’t break the bonds between atoms of a substance or form new ones. compounds can be broken down by a chemical change. a chemical change breaks chemical bonds and/or forms new ones between atoms of a substance. what simple substance would a compound break into? the basic elements that make it up! for example, if you passed a very strong electric current through water you’d break the chemical bonds in water and be left with oxygen and hydrogen. which of the following is an example of a chemical change? a separating water into different glasses b breaking frozen ice cubes with a hammer c running an electric current through water d boiling water to evaporate it on a stove

How are gross production and net production different? a. net production is always greater than gross production. b. net production is always less than gross production. only animals have net production. d. only plants have net production. select the best answer from the choices provided

The cluster of developing cells from conception until birth is called an