Bella thinks that she can make amazing cold coffee by soaking coffee beans in the fridge overnight. She pours this cold brew into a cup.

She also buys a tall dark roast from Starbucks, just in case.

The independent variable in this experiment is because

Temperature of the fridge

Explanation:

The independent variable is the temperature of the fridge.

The hypothesis statement would be "if coffee beans are soaked overnight in a fridge then cold coffee is produce because of the temperature of the fridge".

An independent variable is the cause in an experimental design or set up. It is the variation on this variable that produces the effect we desire to study.

The dependent variable is the cold coffee. It is the cause of putting the coffee in the fridge of overnight.

answer: decrease

a limiting factor is the one which decrease the abundance, distribution and causes extinction of the population of species in a ecosystem. here, predators including hawks, owls and snakes are the limiting factor for the population of mexican free tailed bat.   although bats are nocturnal animals as they forge for food at night these predators also may remain active during night which can decrease the population of the mexican free-tailed bats. also, these bats eat only one type of insects that are moths. the food can also be a limiting factor as all 400 members are dependent upon same type of food needs that are moths. the decrease in the moth population can cause decrease in population size of the mexican free-tailed bats.

therefore, the scenarios will most likely to decrease the population size of the mexican free-tailed bats.