Answer:
This question lacks options; the options are:
A) ability to breathe
B) ability to move
C) ability to grow
D) ability to reproduce
The answer is C
Explanation:
According to the experiment conducted in this question, a student is trying to investigate the characteristics of living and nonliving things. She does this by watering a picnic table and a plant and place both in the sun (constant variable).
She them measures the height (dependent variable) of the things, which is the independent variable. Hence, the characteristics she is investigating is the ABILITY TO GROW because growth/height of the plant is the variable she measures in the experiment.
