Question

A science class is checking to see how much life exists in local streams. One of the students records that 20 amoeba were found in the first sample of water. What is the student doing?

Answer 1

Collecting Data
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Answer 2

What this student is doing is collecting data. So, he wants to check how many life forms there are in the waters nearby. In order to do so, he has to take a sample, and look at it through a microscope so as to determine the number. So, he collected a sample which is his data. He is not drawing conclusions yet, but rather counting these organisms. He is not making a peer review - his peers aren't even mentioned here. He is not forming a hypothesis because he is just counting at this point.