The LaCEPT sponsored Physical Geology class visited the Magnolia Cemetery on October 28th to make observations about weathering rates in rocks. This website is set up as a walk-through the scientific method. The pages that follow illustrate each step of this investigative approach applied to a study of weathering in the Magnolia Cemetery.
Scientists begin by defining or stating a problem they are interested in.
From there, they predict what they think might be the result of the study and form one or several hypotheses.