When scientists use their five senses to learn new information, is called what

Making observations

Explanation:

Observation is one of the initial steps of the research and experimentation process. This involves the examination, visualization and monitoring of the object, specimen, or variable under study. Making observations is the most important step in research. It gathers all attention of the scientists and they use all there senses to examine the features and changes in the material being observed so as to gather new information.  

the potatoes have high sugar concentrations and although these potatoes were different we could seethe effects that their sugar concentrations had in different environments. for example, the potatoes in sample a, were placed in pure water. this created a hypertonic environment and caused the potatoes to draw in water from its surroundings. we saw the opposite happen with the potatoes in sample b when placed in the sodium chloride solution. the potatoes in this case were in a hypotonic solution and therefore lost water to their surroundings.