1309/2012
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When the scientists have finished a period of observations or completed an experiment, they describe what they have done and draw conclusions from the outcome. They try to detect and describe patterns and formulate hypotheses (possible explanations) of patterns, using sentences which start with: ‘This is what it looks like....’; ‘This is what happens when....’; ‘This has happened probably because.....’.
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1109/2012
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Having posed the question(s), a marine scientists collects and collates information that will hopefully help to answer them, either directly or indirectly. The information is collected as data which can be:
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1009/2012
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He or she asks questions (arising from the existing knowledge, from a lack of knowledge, from someone else’s interest) with respect to everything that goes on in the sea; the questions usually begin with: what? when? how? why?
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