When scientists first noticed that bats were dying, many different competing hypotheses were proposed. One hypothesis was that an environmental contaminant, such as a pesticide, was causing the death of the bats. Based on this alternate hypothesis, which of the following represents one or more possible predictions?

If a contaminant is the cause of death, then exposure of bats to the contaminant will lead to illness and death.

If a contaminant is the cause of death, then contaminants will be detected or measured in the cave or in the bats.

Explanation:

A hypothesis can be described as a tentative experiment which can either be proved to be right or wrong through experiments.

Through the above-stated hypothesis, one of the predictions that scientists might make is that if a pesticide was actually the reason for the death of the bats, then exposure to this pesticide should cause death in the bats in a lab.

Also, to determine the cause of death, the pesticide needs to be detected in the bats.