Question

Read the scenario. Hemlocks are a common type of tree in the northern forests of the United States. In studying one forest, a forester noticed that mature hemlocks were abundant but there were very few young hemlocks. She wondered why there were so few young hemlocks. By reading the records that other foresters in that area had kept, she learned that the population of deer living in the forest had doubled in the last five years. By reading studies on forests that other scientists had performed, she also learned that deer in similar forests like to eat young hemlocks and the young trees of other species. Which question most closely relates to the forester's observations and the collected scientific data on forests

Answer 1

The question is incomplete as the group of choices are not provided. However, a group of choices is given below:

A. Do the young hemlocks have a disease?

B. Are deer eating most of the young hemlocks

C. Did a lack of rain the hemlocks to stop producing?

D. Why were there so many deer in the forest?

Answer:

The correct answer is - option B Are deer eating most of the young hemlocks .

Explanation:

By the observation made by the researcher about decreased young hemlocks and increased deer population in the last 5 year time period and findings of the deers that they like to eat young hemlocks, she can make observations and form the question.

On the following finding, she was able to make a question that the population of deer increased has led to the young Hemlock's population that the deer eat young Hemlocks.

Thus, the correct answer is - option B Are deer eating most of the young hemlocks .