The secret weapon of any insect that walks on water is in its body hair. Water striders and fishing spiders both have legs and bodies that are covered in a thick layer of tiny hairs. These hairs trap air in between them, repelling water and helping them keep the bugs afloat. If the insect were to get wet through, it wouldn’t be able to walk on the surface of the water anymore.
1. Describe - the first goal is to observe behavior and describe.
2. Explain - While descriptions come from observable data, psychologists must go beyond what is obvious and explain their observations. In other words, why did the subject do what he or she did?
3. Predict - Once we know what happens, and why it happens, we can begin to speculate what will happen in the future.
4. Control - Once we know what happens, why it happens and what is likely to happen in the future, we can excerpt control over it
5. Improve - Not only do psychologists attempt to control behavior, they want to do so in a positive manner, they want to improve a person’s life, not make it worse.
I belive the answer is a sand bar!
Answer: we can make observations directly by seeing, feeling, hearing, and smelling, but we can also extend and refine our basic senses with tools: thermometers, microscopes, telescopes, radar, radiation sensors, X-ray crystallography, mass spectroscopy, etc. And these tools do a better job of observing than we can!
The natural spreading of particles through a liquid or gas is called diffusion
