After reading the paragraph below, answer the question that follows.Scientists interested in knowing the best way to restore an
area after a temporary road was built through it completed a study comparing two treatments: (1) restoring the contour of an area so that there was no longer a depression or cut-through where the road was previously and (2) simply abandoning the area to allow vegetation to return on its own. They wanted to know whether either or both of these treatments would return the aboveground vegetation and the belowground soil properties to their original state, as seen in a similar area where there had never been a road.In this experiment, the area that had never had a road is useful to the experiment because:________________
The area that had never had a road is extremely useful because it acts as the control group in the experiment. The researchers can use this untouched area of land as a benchmark for the rest of the experiment. Once they implement both test scenarios on the pieces of road, they can then compare the results gathered from each study with the data gathered from the area that had never been a road in order to determine which option provides results that best compare to the original properties of the piece of area that has never been made into a road.
